On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 11:56:38AM -0700, Joris Huizer 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] > > I copied the kernel config of the current 2.2.20 and > added support for scsi as the document you pointed at > suggested - and I added some sound support as modules > are missing there, too. > > What should I do ?? I don't know what exactly is too > big, nor what I should do to solve it; Try doing the first thing it says - use "make bzImage" instead of "make zImage". Don't know why it thinks it (the kernel image) is too big though - mine are usually O(750k) and I don't get this message. Also rather important is that "make clean" should be the first thing you do, not the third... -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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