Re: Help with kernel compilation!

[Vamsi Krishna <krishna_k@students.iiit.net>]

Same problem occured for me when i first compiled the kernel.
The problem is that the kernel size may be bigger than the RAM size .in my 
case i compiled the kernel on a 16MB machine,the kernel image became very 
large.now i tried to boot it hanged after saying "Loading kernel........."

now i tried the same kernel on a 128MB machine it booted perfectly.

solution to the problem may be solved by recompling the kernel with 
MODULES rather than static compiling.

thanks
vamsi

On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, John Navil Joseph wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I was trying to compile the kernel 2.4.20 on a newly installed
> Redhat 8.0 system.
> 
> The kernel and the modules was compiled successfully. 
> 
> But i was getting the following error when executing "make install"
> 
> ........
> ........
> Setup is 2521 bytes.
> System is 964 kB
> warning: kernel is too big for standalone boot from floppy
> sh -x ./install.sh 2.4.20 bzImage /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/System.map ""
> + '[' -x /root/bin/installkernel ']'
> + '[' -x /sbin/installkernel ']'
> + exec /sbin/installkernel 2.4.20 bzImage /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/System.map ''
> grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/arch/i386/boot'
> >
> 
> However i managed to configure grub manually by adding the new image.
> But i couldn't boot with the new kernel.
> 
> It hangs with "Loading kernel....."!
> 
> Can anyone tell me what i am missing here..?
> 
> TIA,
> 	john
> 
>  
> 

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