Re: Problems to make bzImage small enough

Hi,

If your /boot partition on the harddisk is large enough, you don't have to worry about that mesage.

Cheers,

Martijn

Bernd Dau wrote:
> Hi list,
> if I am trying to build the kernel linux-2.4.19-gentoo-r9 with athlon-xp
> optimization then the kernel is too big:
> ________________
> 
> tools/build -b bbootsect bsetup compressed/bvmlinux.out CURRENT >
> bzImage
> Root device is (3, 2)
> Boot sector 512 bytes.
> Setup is 2566 bytes.
> System is 1000 kB
> warning: kernel is too big for standalone boot from floppy
> _____________
> 
> 
> The next try was I am used athlon/Duron optimization
> ___________________
> tools/build -b bbootsect bsetup compressed/bvmlinux.out CURRENT >
> bzImage
> Root device is (3, 2)
> Boot sector 512 bytes.
> Setup is 2566 bytes.
> System is 1001 kB
> warning: kernel is too big for standalone boot from floppy
> ___________________
> 
> Does anybody solved this problem?
> 
> (nearly everything is build as module)
> My base is stage3-i686_athlon.xp-1.4_rc1.tar.bz2
> chrootet gcc (GCC) 3.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.0 3.2-1mdk)
> 
> Or is it possible with little work by myself to build the kernel with
> initrd within gentoo? (meaning is there support by the package-system
> for this)
> 
> Bernd
> 
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