On Tuesday 03 Feb 2004 02:42, Ashish Samant wrote: > Hi... > > I am in the middle of building a new kernel (2.4.20) and this is my > first attempt. I have got as far as configuring it with 'make xconfig' , > followed by 'make dep', 'make clean' and 'make bzImage'. > > So far so good, but I did get these messages after the the kernel image > was created : > > ...... > > Root device is (3,3) > Boot sector is 512 bytes > Setup is 4667 bytes > System is 1028 Kb > warning : kernel is too big for standalone boot from floppy. > ....... > > What does that signify ? Have I chosen too many modules and options during > the config process ? Is that kernel image alarmingly huge and do I need to > redo the whole thing ? Or can I proceed with the install ? Carry on. it'll be fine. It just means exactly what it says. You won't be doing a standalone floppy boot, will you? (ie boot and run from a floppy) the following may be already known to you, but you did say it was your first time compiling kernels... A word of advice. Have you checked the top few lines of the kernel Makefile? If you haven't, do so now and make sure that the VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 4 SUBLEVEL = 20 EXTRAVERSION = lines do not match precisely any kernel on your system you still wish to boot... (the new kernel modules would replace the already existing ones). I usually tack on something to identify my custom kernel in the EXTRAVERSION section. eg EXTRAVERSION = 9.scsi (or whatever, depending on what I have done) Stuart > > Thanks for your time, > > Ashish Samant. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
