Re: [TCLUG:6754] kernel too big

[Ben Luey <ben@hearingsociety.org>]

Well, i recompiled with make dep;make clean;make bzImagenand bzImage
(under /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot) is type bytes larger than before.
What is with that? Now when I run lilo I get:

Warning: device 0x0302 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit
geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (3438 > 1023) 

before I just got that kernel too large. A yet the default redhat kerenl
is 3.5 times as large and works fine with lilo (it is 1.5meg) How I get my
kernel to boot. Do I need to module more stuff?

Thanks,

Ben



On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, JellyD wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Tim Wilson wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Ben Luey wrote:
> > 
> > > Why is the 1.5 meg default kernel not too big and my smaller one too big.
> > > How can I fix this? 
> > 
> > I'm not sure, but could this be related to the difference between zImage
> > and bzImage. Most 2.2.x kernels are too big to use zImage. You've got to
> > 'make bzImage' instead.
> 
> What determines the maximum size of the kernel, anyway ? It's not
> like we've got a decrepit 640K DOS conventional memory limit or
> anything. I've got tons of RAM and dammit, I want to feel free
> to make huge bloated kernels if I so desire :P
> 
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