Re: [Woody] Rescue/boot floppy for custom 2.4.21 kernel?
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:57:41AM +0200, Sylvain Briole wrote:
>
> I have run the compilation like this :
> make dep;make clean;make;make zImage
>
> I obtain :
>
> [...]
> Root device is (7, 7)
> Boot sector 512 bytes.
> Setup is 4804 bytes.
> System is 1450 kB
> System is too big. Try using bzImage or modules.
> make[1]: *** [zImage] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/local/src/kernel-source-2.4.21-2.4.21.orig/arch/i386/boot'make: *** [zImage] Error 2
>
> So, I have tried it with make bzImage :
>
> [...]
> Root device is (7, 7)
> Boot sector 512 bytes.
> Setup is 4804 bytes.
> System is 1450 kB
> warning: kernel is too big for standalone boot from floppy
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/local/src/kernel-source-2.4.21-2.4.21.orig/arch/i386/boot'
> Why is my kernel a lot bigger than the original Debian one?
> Onto :
> http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/bf2.4/
> The kernel (linux.bin) is only 1.2M!
I think you should use make bzImage to get a compressed one. I have met
the same problem before. But I don't know why.
Regards.
--
Zeng Nan
Simple is Beautiful.
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