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Re: kernel compiling problems (was Re: howto detect a parallel iomega 100 mb device)



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...

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