> I'm not aware of any 4MB limit on kernel size (and I ought to be if there
> is one 8). Can you run the details past me? (I've regularly booted much
> larger kernels in the past...)
OK, I built 5 kernels based on the same kerne config file giving some
modifications. Here is the result.
boot? kernel size description ( (+)Add (-)Delete )
-------+---------------+----------------------------------------------
OK 4007152 (+)device acpica
NG 4182845 (+)device acpica (+)options ACPI_DEBUG
OK 4011963 (+)device acpica (+)options ACPI_DEBUG (-)USB stuff
OK 3470869 GENERIC
OK 16022220 config -g GENERIC
Mysteriously, kernel.debug (16MB) does boot...
Ah, probably section size limitation?
% size ACPICA/kernel* GENERIC/kernel*
text data bss dec hex filename
3176366 370104 172152 3718622 38bdde ACPICA/kernel.big
3058264 346724 165848 3570836 367c94 ACPICA/kernel.normal
3009909 368024 169688 3547621 3621e5 ACPICA/kernel.small
2745241 206872 152184 3104297 2f5e29 GENERIC/kernel
2745241 206872 152184 3104297 2f5e29 GENERIC/kernel.debug
Maybe /boot/ stuff is reltated with this too.
% ls -ltR /boot
total 908
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 3072 10/ 8 15:50 kernel
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 159744 10/ 8 15:49 liloboot
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 157696 10/ 8 15:49 pxeboot
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 157696 10/ 8 15:49 cdboot
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 10/ 8 15:49 defaults
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 155648 10/ 8 15:49 loader
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 7680 10/ 8 15:49 boot2
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 512 10/ 8 15:49 boot1
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 512 10/ 8 15:49 boot0
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 512 10/ 8 15:49 mbr
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 10/ 7 11:29 kernel.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 7816 10/ 6 02:08 loader.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1440 10/ 4 19:23 device.hints
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 155648 10/ 2 16:35 loader.old
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 7577 9/27 10:57 loader.4th
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 35170 9/27 10:57 support.4th
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 9/16 18:33 modules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 24 8/ 4 23:58 kernel.conf
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 12064 4/17 16:33 loader.help
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 338 1/31 2000 loader.rc
/boot/kernel:
total 8536
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 20741 10/ 8 15:50 if_wi.ko
:
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 15097 10/ 8 15:49 3dfx.ko
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3891459 10/ 8 15:40 kernel
/boot/defaults:
total 8
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 7979 9/19 04:38 loader.conf
/boot/kernel.old:
total 3768
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3844898 10/ 7 11:29 kernel
/boot/modules:
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