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Re: problem building non-modular kernel

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Nielsen)
Mon Oct 21 18:46:15 1996

Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:55:38 -0700 (MST)
From: Bob Nielsen <nielsen@primenet.com>
Reply-To: nielsen@primenet.com
To: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961021002529.3338C-100000@peanut.senie.com>
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On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Daniel Senie wrote:

> I got the following error building a non-modular kernel. I embarked on
> building a non-modular kernel after not being able to get the modular
> kernel and the modules to agree on versions.
> 
> Dan
> 
> ----
> 
> tools/build bootsect setup compressed/vmlinux.out CURRENT > zImage
> Root device is (8, 1)
> Boot sector 512 bytes.
> Setup is 4344 bytes.
> System is 517 kB
> System is too big
> make[1]: *** [zImage] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0.18/arch/i386/boot'
> make: *** [zImage] Error 2
> # 
> 

The solution to a "too big" error is to make bzimage or bzdisk.  You will
need to upgrade to LILO .19 or LOADLIN 1.6  with this, however.

Bob

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