Re: kernel compile

[Aaron <aaron greyhour com>]

i'm pretty sure make bzImage will do the trick

unless there are other problems

i got that same message once myself (not that I'm anyone to talk)

Aaron
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On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, David Powers wrote:

> Okay I'm going to be as calm as possible and I'm open to being told that
> I'm being stupid here.  I'm running a stock 2.2.5-22 kernel.  I'm trying
> to recompile and cut out what I don't need.  Well, I do my thing like
> the docs say
> 
> make mrproper
> make menuconfig (and cut out what I don't have)
> make dep
> make clean
> make boot  (even tried make zImage for this step too)
> 
> This is how make stops for me
> 
> tools/build bootsect setup compresssed/vmlinux.out CURRENT > xImage
> Root device is (3, 9)
> Boot sector is 512 bytes.
> Setup is 3548 bytes.
> System is 512 kB
> System is too big. Try using bzImage or modules.
> make[1]: ### [zImage] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving derectory '/usr/src/linux-2.2.5/arch/i386/boot'
> make:  ** [zImage] Error 2
> 
> I am going to try bzImage though I had thought that I tried that earlier
> and it did not work.  Any ideas I'd have to thank much in advance.
>