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My patched slack 2.6.13 kernel patched with patches 2.6.14, 2.6.15, 2.6.16 is 5,055,940 and I'm getting the message that it's too big. I've tried to reduce it with little success. I'm not willing to make it the only kernel available for boot. I'm using lilo. Anyone have any suggestions?
The precise message lilo gave me was:"Fatal: Kernel /boot/vmlinux-custom-2.6.16 is too big". I'm just concerned that lilo won't work. I have no intention of booting from a floppy.
Did you remember to issue the:
make bzImage
to compress it? Then copy the compressed image over to your /boot directory?
cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinux-custom-2.6.16
Thanks for the quick replies. I've found an excellent HOW-TO,http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/K...FIGURATION-2-6
I was not placing the compressed image in the boot directory. I had to go to the arch/i386/boot to get it. And yes, I didn't make the modules. Thanks again.
You don't need to do this with 2.6, a simple 'make' will compile both the kernel and modules. You could also use checkinstall to create a package. It can create Slackware tgz, rpm and deb packages, which pretty much covers everything except Gentoo but that has it's own installation procedure anyway.
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