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Old 08-23-2000, 02:28 AM   #1
bickford
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Well I snagged the 2.4.0-test6 kernel and I'm trying to install it. Basically I'm going through the motions of make xconfig, make clean, make dep etc... etc... and I ALWAYS run into this same problem. When I go to make zlilo I get the following:


Root device is (8, 8)
Boot sector 512 bytes.
Setup is 2391 bytes.
System is 562 kB
System is too big. Try using bzImage or modules.
make[1]: *** [zImage] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot'
make: *** [zlilo] Error 2


I have on VERY rare occasions been able to install a new kernel because it always gives me this error. It's really frusterating and I've never been able to get a straight answer as to why this happens. The kernel I build which resulted in the above error is as small as I can possibly make it. In other words I used as many modules as I can and I used make bzImage. Can anyone provide any info as to why this always happens to my machine and what I can finally do to fix it? Does it have something to do with the fact that I'm running win98 on this machine as well?
 
Old 08-23-2000, 02:53 AM   #2
Larry James
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Will you give us the the error you get with make zlilo will you give us the actual error with "make bzImage". I'd get the same error you gave if I tried make zImage, but it goes away with the "make bzImage".

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Old 08-23-2000, 07:18 AM   #3
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bickford,
You either need to make the kernel smaller, usually by compiling more things in as modules, or use make bzImage. Both zImage and bzImage are compressed with gzip. The kernel includes a mini-gunzip to uncompress the kernel and boot into it. The difference is that the old zImage uncompresses the kernel into low memory (the first 640k), and bzImage uncompresses the kernel into high memory (over 1M).
 
  


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