new kernel won't compile, help please

[Greg Whalin]

If you compile some of the config items as modules, your kernel will be
smaller. 

Greg

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Greg Whalin
gwhalin at numerix.com

On Fri, 7 Aug 1998 ajwilson at abingdon.postmaster.co.uk wrote:

> Firstly, thanks for the advice i've already recieved from this mailing
> list.
> 
> I've downloaded the pre-6 patch and the 2.0.35 kernel, and after many hours
> of
> fiddling finally managed to patch the kernel, get the configuration right
> and
> start to compile. As far as I can see, the whole thing compiled perfectly,
> but
> right at the end i got the following error message and it quit without
> creating
> the zImage file (actually it did create one of about 4k)-
> 
> tools/build bootsect setup compressed/vmlinuz.out Current > zImage
> Root device is 3,2 **(when i tried again it said 0,0)**
> Boot sector is 512 bytes
> Setup is 4416 bytes
> System is 509 KB
> System is too big
> 
> And it quits saying error 2.
> 
> It's pretty obvious that it is trying to put the file in the boot sector,
> and
> this isn't big enough for the kernel. The question is, what do i do about
> this?
> I just _know_ im missing something obvious but i cant work out what, i've
> read
> all the readmes and howtos but they didn't say anything about this.
> 
> Please could someone help me with this, I think I'm almost there and I've
> been
> trying for hours (this is my first kernel compilation). I know this isn't
> directly to do with the aic7xxx driver, but people on this list were very
> helpful before, and at least if i get the kernel sorted out i can give some
> 
> feedback on whether the driver works with my ultra2 controller :)
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Alastair Wilson
> 
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