System is too Big; son of make menuconfig
Ok, first time rebuilding the kernel so I'm not too upset it's going all
wrong...but
my books tell me what to do when I run make zImage and the system is too
big: run make bzImage. But they don't tell me what to do when that too is
too big. And how could it be too big? I use the M option as my yes key and I
didn't select anything that I didn't recognize and I have a pretty stripp't
down system. I get the message: Boot Sector 512 bytes
System is 601 bytes after make bzImage
What else can I do? Am I correct in assuming that this does not have
anything to do with my boot partition size? Which just happens to be about
512MB. But I've looked, it's hardly being used.
Also, I took a chance and just exited the terminal after this message. Am I
correct in assuming nothing on my system was changed? I rebooted and nothing
seems changed.
Since my current configuration seems to be acceptable in size, is there a
way of just using it as the basis for making changes? The book suggests that
this be done on subsequent rebuilds, but doesn't say anything about using
the current configuration for the first rebuild.
Lot of questions...(insert comments about documentation vis a vis beginners
here)
Best Wishes!
Mike Olds www.buddhadust.org
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