Re: kernel compiling problems (was Re: howto detect a parallel iomega 100 mb device)
On Wed, 21 May 2003 11:56:38 -0700 (PDT)
Joris Huizer <joris_huizer@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I don't really like having to try a compilation...
> Anyway, I got the 2.4.18 source and I did the
> following
> make xconfig
> make dep
> make clean
> make zImage 2>&1 | tee zImage.out
>
> Unfortunately, that last command stops with an error
> :-(
>
> tools/build bootsect setup compressed/vmlinux.out
> CURRENT > zImage
> Root device is (3, 2)
> Boot sector 512 bytes.
> Setup is 4656 bytes.
> System is 680 KB.
> System is too big. Try using bzImage or modules.
> [make errors]
You really, really need to read those error messages. :)
They told you exactly what was wrong, and what to do about it.
Instead of doing "make zImage" do "make bzImage".
Kevin
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