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[Duane Malcolm <d.malcolm AT auckland.ac.nz>]

I made a vmlinux kernel but lilo says it too large ("Fatal: Kernel 
/boot/vmlinux is too big"). I am nw compiling the kernel using a 2.4.18 
kernel config file from a person who has a Evo n160. I'll see if I'm 
missing something in the kernel.

I think it's hardware or how lilo talks to the hardware because the same 
image doesn't have a problem on other machines.

If this doesn't work and nothing else comes to mind, I'll give up and 
hang out for a new laptop.

Duane.

Seth Woolley wrote:
> from /usr/src/linux/README:
>
>  - Do a "make bzImage" to create a compressed kernel image.  If you want
>    to make a boot disk (without root filesystem or LILO), insert a floppy
>    in your A: drive, and do a "make bzdisk".  It is also possible to do
>    "make install" if you have lilo installed to suit the kernel makefiles,
>    but you may want to check your particular lilo setup first.
>
>    To do the actual install you have to be root, but none of the normal
>    build should require that. Don't take the name of root in vain.
>
>  - In the unlikely event that your system cannot boot bzImage kernels you
>    can still compile your kernel as zImage. However, since zImage support
>    will be removed at some point in the future in favor of bzImage we
>    encourage people having problems with booting bzImage kernels to report
>    these, with detailed hardware configuration information, to the
>    linux-kernel mailing list and to H. Peter Anvin <hpa+linux AT zytor.com>.
>
> make vmlinux for uncompressed
> make  zImage for gzip
> make bzImage for bzip2
>
> copy it into /boot from eiher . or ./arch/${ARCH}/boot/, setup lilo, away
> you go.
>
> vmlinux should be in /usr/src/linux/vmlinux even with our own linux spell
> that does bzipping by default for i386.
>
> Just cast it, and cp /usr/src/linux/vmlinux /boot and then point lilo to
> it and run lilo.  See if that makes bootup a lot faster?
>
> Seth
>
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Andrew wrote:
>
>
> > basically if your bios is broken you may not be able to load a compressed
> > kernel, or at least thats what i hear is the reason for leaving that
> > stuff in the kernel build process.
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 01:21:40AM -0400, Jeremy A. Kolb wrote:
> >
> > > I've never known anyone to not compress their kernel.  What's the reason
> > > for not compressing it? Other than a slightly slower bootup (a couple
> > > seconds at the most) what are the advantages/disadvantages?
> > >
> > > Jeremy
> > >
> > > On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Seth Woolley wrote:
> > >
> > >
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> > > > Maybe our linux spell should allow you to select compression options.
> > > >
> > > > Seth
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Dufflebunk wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > It's a long shot, but are you sure the PII image was compressed? Might
> > > > > it have been an uncompressed image? That would make the boot much
> > > > > faster...
> > > > >
> > > > > On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 17:37, Duane Malcolm wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > I installed Mandrake 8.2 using an XFS and ext3 partition and there was
> > > > > > no difference. I do know that I put an image from my maching on a 200MHz
> > > > > > PII and it uncompresses the kernel image in less than a second. This
> > > > > > pissed me off. I might look into the bios. I don't understand how the
> > > > > > acpi can kick in from the kernel if you haven't uncompressed the kernel.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Anyway, I'll keep going and tell you when I give up and accept my fate.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Duane.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Duane Malcolm wrote:
> > > > > > > Seth Woolley wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >> Something tells me that's way too long... is this a laptop?  Could be
> > > > > > >> some
> > > > > > >> acpi buggery and on bootup it starts in a slow state until acpi
> > > > > > kicks in.
> > > > > > >> How are non-smgl partitions behaving, or is it just our kernels?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > It is a laptop. I was considering quickly putting mandrake on to test if
> > > > > > > it's my smgl or not. I'll reply on this soon.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >>
> > > > > > >> On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Duane Malcolm wrote:
> > > > > > >>
> > > > > > >>
> > > > > > >>> Hi,
> > > > > > >>>
> > > > > > >>> This is a bit different but it is starting to really annoy me.
> > > > > > >>>
> > > > > > >>> I have an Compaq Evo N160, PIII 1.2 Ghz, 30G HD and 750 MB RAM. When I
> > > > > > >>> boot up, it gets into lilo fine and when I choose one of my sourcemage
> > > > > > >>> partition it takes 15-20 seconds to uncompress the kernel image. The
> > > > > > >>> rest of the boot up goes fine. I have searched the web and tried a
> > > > > > >>> number of things but haven't been lucky. Does anyone have an idea?
> > > > > > >>>
> > > > > > >>> Cheers, Duane.
> > > > > > >>
> > > > > > >>
> > > > > > >>
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