Re: Kernel too big...how to fix it?

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From: Jacob L. Cybulski
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 00:00

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jvahn@short.circuit.com (James Vahn) writes:

>Dan Linder (dlinder@inacom.com) wrote:
>: I do a "make zImage" and it creates a compressed kernel in the 
>: boot/i386.../zImage.  The directory is shows as one of the last
>: "leaving" lines when you do the make zImage...
>Now try a "make boot". I just finished 1.2.1 and "make zImage"
>actually made "vmlinuz" while "make boot" created zImage. You 
>have to do both. I'm using loadlin/zImage.

I haven't seen the original posting, but you can get the message
complaining about the size of the newly installed kernel from Lilo.
This happened to me when I forgot to reconfigure Lilo after kernel
compilation (or after you install a different kernel from some
distribution).

Jacob
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From: jacob@latcs1.lat.oz.au (Jacob L. Cybulski)
Subject: Re: Kernel too big...how to fix it?
Date: 1995/04/19
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