On 5/5/06, Manjunath Naik <peter.desouzain@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all, I am trying to compile linux kernel first time. The kernel souce version is 2.6.16. After issuing the command make zImage,
Use just plain "make" which will implicitly do "make bzImage" which will create a "Big zImage". [snip]
System is too big. Try using bzImage or modules.
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Could any one expain me what is this error meant by? I thought their is space problem in hard disk. Whether it is correct or not? If not what is the problem here.
It's not a disk space problem. There's a limit to how big a zImage can be, and yours is too big. The solution is to either move more stuff to modules (instead of build-in) or simply use a "big zImage" aka "bzImage". The build process changed from 2.4.x to 2.6.x kernels. For a 2.6.x kernel what you need to do is : (as a normal user) 1) extract source. 2) configure source (with "make menuconfig" or one of the other configuration options. 3) build the kernel by running "make". (as root) 4) install any modules that you build by running "make modules_install". 5) install the kernel image either with "make install" or by manually copying System.map and arch/i386/boot/bzImage (or equivalent for other archs) to /boot and adding the new kernel image to your bootloader. -- Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
