Re: lilo: 'Kernel /vmlinuz is too big'
Tony Crawford wrote:
>
> I got this error after throwing out a 386/387 mainboard and putting
> in a Pentium 133/PCI, then recompiling the kernel with the new
> processor type and PCI bios support. Now Lilo doesn't want to install
> the new kernel, grr-grr! The old one was already over 700 KB and the
> new one is <900, so what's the big deal? And: what's the remedy? I
You should *definitely* exclude support for things you don't need. This
makes your kernel much smaller. Very helpful also is to compile things
you don't absolutely need to boot your machine into modules, like floppy
disk, tape, cd-rom drivers, network drivers, etc. You later load these
modules after the kernel has mounted the root filesystem (this can even
be done automagically by use of the kernel daemon or the respective
kernel thread.)
> tried make bzImage, I tried all three HD geometries offered by the
^^^^^^^^^^^^
And why didn't it work? This *is* the solution to your problem...
> new BIOS, I tried "linear" (which I'd *had* to use on the 386) ... I
Those two points won't help you at all, they don't have anything to do
with your problem.
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