🚀 go-pugleaf

>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Mouritsen <mourip@cpcug.org> writes:

Paul> After installing Linux a month ago I finally decided to brave
Paul> the process of rebuilding my kernel to get it "just right." My
Paul> current, original (Slackware-IDECD2) kernel reads about 430k
Paul> when viewed as a file in my shell.  When it loads I get a line
Paul> "big kernel, just under 1MB" or something like that. I figured
Paul> that I would recompile it removing unnecessary SCSI support but
Paul> adding sound support. All went well but I ended up with a kernel
Paul> that weighed in at 720K!!! LILO would not load it saying that it
Paul> was too big. Any hints for a kernel weight reduction
Paul> program. Dietary restrictions combined with exercise? How do you
Paul> get lean and mean but with all the support you need?  What
Paul> components are notorious memory hogs?

I too am having the same problem.  I know what the problem is, just
not the fix.  In earlier Slackware distributions, in the kernel
Makefile, there was an option to make a compressed kernel.  This
turned vmlinux into vmlinuz.  This is what Lilo is expecting.  It is
not that we have to take more out of our kernels, it is that we need
to find the tools to compress it.  And it is not just a matter of
using gzip, either.

dion

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Dion Hollenbeck (619)597-7080x119       Email: hollen@vigra.com
Senior Software Engineer     Vigra, Inc.  San Diego, California