On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Jim Kannengieser wrote:
> Hello. I just upgraded my system to Red Hat 6.1 and tried to compile a
> custom kernel. I followed all the steps on the Red Hat web site up to
> the make boot command. That seemed to be working well, but after several
> minutes of compiling, I received the following error message:
>
> objcopy -O binary -R .note -R .comment -S compressed/vmlinux
> compressed/vmlinux.out
> tools/build bootsect setup compressed/vmlinux.out CURRENT > zImage
> Root device is (8, 1)
> Boot sector 512 bytes.
> Setup is 3424 bytes.
> System is 527 kB
> System is too big. Try using bzImage or modules.
> make[1]: *** [zImage] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.12/arch/i386/boot'
> make: *** [boot] Error 2
>
> I know for certain that I chose to build a modular kernel. I was also
> very picky about the features and modules that I chose to build, only
> selecting those that were appropriate for my hardware. I've never used
> bzImage. How would one go about that? Or better yet, how can I build a
> modular kernel that isn't too big (when I thought that I was in fact
> trimming the fat from my kernel) and avoid bzImage if I can?
You can't. You must use bzImage or take more things out of the kernel.
Jeff
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