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Re: Rebuilding the kernel

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Duquette)
Wed Nov 18 12:55:28 1998

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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 12:59:35 -0500
From: John Duquette <jduquette@icsa.net>
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> I tried to rebuild the kernel changing the CPU switch to Pentium. The
> compiled kernel came to almost 1 MB. SO when I tried to onstall it with
> the command 'lilo' the response I got was Kernel /boot/vnlinuz is too
> big. So what is the problem and how can I install my new kernel
> 
> Redhat ver 5.1 kervel ver 2.0.35

Use make zImage to make a compressed kernel

If that fails to fix the problem, make some options modules instead of compiling them into the kernel.

john


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