I just download a MIPS kernel I tried to start of with taking a backup of existing kernel config file and issued # make oldconfig. It asked me lot of details, so I skipped it. And, when I issues # make dep, it failed saying Its not the time to make dep. Is there a separate way to compile the MIPS kernel. Regards, Mukund Jampala >-----Original Message----- >From: kernelnewbies-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kernelnewbies- >bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jesper Juhl >Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 4:21 PM >To: Manjunath Naik >Cc: kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: Re: Problem with Kernel Compilation > >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. >[snip] >> >> 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/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
