Re: Kernel compilation error / Kernel too big.
Andrew Ivanov wrote:
>
> I just finished compiling my own kernel( 2.0.34), and it comes out of size
> 788K, which is too big for Lilo to handle.
> Are there any ways around it?
>
> I tried make bzImage, like HOWTO suggested, but at the end of compilation
> I get:
> as86 -0 -a -o bbootsect.o bbootsect.a
> make[1]: as86: Command not found
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This means you need to load the bin86 package, which is needed on i386
platforms to build the kernel.
> make[1]: *** [bbootsect.o] Error 127
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.34/arch/i386/boot/
> make: *** [bzImage] Error 2
>
> It still produces a vmlinux file in /usr/src, though. But I don't know if
> this is how bzImage is supposed to work.
> Any ideas on what to do about that error and/or how to make LILO work with
> a kernel of that size?
>
> TIA,
> Andrew
>
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Ed C.
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