Rebuilt kernel is too big

["David A. Cobb" <superbiskit@cox.net>]

I did a make-kpkg on kernel-2.6.10 (_2.6.10-4) and everything appeared 
to go well; likewise dpkg --install <new.deb> was without error or 
exception.

However, when I added the new vmlinuz & initrd.img to my lilo.conf and 
ran lilo, it moaned unhappily about the size of the kernel and assuming 
it could load it at the top of memory, etc.  On the menu, the new kernel 
was marked with a 'U'.  I tried booting it anyway, but got a kernel 
panic because the romfs was too big and then it couldn't "sync" or open 
the boot device (0302). 

Is there a way to accomodate this?  Could it be as simple as the 
configuration parameter for the size of the "ramdisks"?
Alternatively, how can I reliably make the kernel enough smaller to work?

--
David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate
"By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim: R.French, Tr.
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