Re: Best Keeps Getting Bigger

[David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il>]

On Tuesday 29 December 2009 18:12:37 debian-user-digest-
request@lists.debian.org wrote:
> > Built kernel 2.6.32.3. Get 2.6.32EBDA too big, overlaps lilo 2nd stage
> > image  or something like that. This is a non-initrd kernel.
> > 
> > Do I have to go back to an initrd (stopped using it because of all those
> > yaird  problems)?
> > 
> > Or is there a lilo parameter I can increase to make room?
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> Just out of curiosity, what's the size of your kernel image file?  I also
>  use lilo and no initrd.  I'm using 2.6.31.1 with Lenny and have not run
>  into any boot problems yet.
> 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12781374 Oct 29 18:11 /usr/src/linux-image-2.6.31-
davidb_2.6.31-davidb-10.00.Custom_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12785544 Nov 16 22:14 /usr/src/linux-image-2.6.31-
davidb-svn14611_2.6.31-davidb-svn14611-10.00.Custom_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12870190 Oct 28 19:29 /usr/src/linux-image-2.6.31-rt-
davidb_2.6.31-rt-davidb-10.00.Custom_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13104356 Dec 27 21:23 /usr/src/linux-image-2.6.32.1-
davidb_2.6.32-davidb-10.00.Custom_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13109468 Dec 28 19:41 /usr/src/linux-image-2.6.32-
davidb_2.6.32-davidb-10.00.Custom_i386.deb

The last one is the 2.6.32.3 image. Simply note the progression :-)
The 2.6.31.1 (first one) is much much smaller.