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"Mr. TANG" <mktan4@cfs02.cc.monash.edu.au> writes:

>Hi All

>    I have config my SB32 sound card with kernel 2.0.27, after finish
>'make zImage' (create new boot image file), then try type 'lilo', I have
>received error message 'lilo too big', how to fix it ? and what is it
>mean ???

There are some limits as to the sizes of various bits of the kernel when
loaded. You might wish to try "make bzImage" (do a "make depend; make
clean" first) which gets around the problem. For lilo to work with the
resulting image though you need a very recent version of lilo.

Quite frankly though the kernel is getting quite bloated these days,
and it's far better to just compile everything except for ext2 and ELF
support as a module if possible, and use the kerneld stuff to autoload
modules on demand. Cheaper in terms of memory too (maybe a bit slower
sometimes).

How to use kerneld? Well, it's not that difficult. :) Well worth the
effort working out how to do it. Some people whinge at sound volume
being reset to the default every time the sound module is reloaded --
that should be fixed soon (data persistance in modules is available in
2.1.x kernels now.. only a matter of time before it's used). Until then
just put an "insmod sound" at the end of your /etc/rc.d/rc.local and
things will work fine (modules only get unloaded after 2 minutes of not
being used if they were autoloaded in the first place).

 - Andrew