Re: big Linux

From: Gerhard Thimm (gthimm@zbw.ch)
Date: Wed May 05 1999 - 21:19:00 CEST


>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerhard Thimm [mailto:gthimm@zbw.ch]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 12:48 PM
> To: mulinux@lists.linux.it
> Subject: Re: big Linux
>
> Graham, John schrieb:
> >
> > I know this is a little off the topic, please forgive me. The people on
> this
> > list are very knowledgeable, so I thought I'd solicit there help . I'm
> > trying to upgrade my kernel (2.0.36) to 2.2.7 and when I do make zImage I
> > get an error at the end saying the system was too big try using bzimage or
> > modules. I'm not quite sure what this means, it's not covered in my
> running
> > linux book.
> >
> > Thanks again
> >
> > Please ignore this if it's inappropriate for this mailing list
>
> Oh it means what it says, try: "make bzImage" instead "make zImage"
> Typically this happens if the kernel image 500KB exceeds. Don't ask me
> why, I just do it that way. :-)

Graham, John schrieb:
>
> after that do I copy vmlinux to the boot folder or is there another command
> I need to execute

after that behave as you ever do. copy vmlinuz and rerun lilo.
Gerhard

PS: This should you find in good linux books :-)



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