[Gllug] ABI kernels

Stephen Harker steve at pauken.co.uk
Wed Jan 16 13:46:24 UTC 2002


On Wednesday 16 January 2002 12:34, you wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 12:05:15PM +0000, Stephen Harker wrote:
> > He is having problems compiling a kernel from
> > source with the ABI patches because he is ending up with a 2.6 MB
> > kernel which LILO won't load.
>
> Sounds like he's compiling a kernel without using modules. Ideally,
> only the drivers needed to get the kernel to boot should be
> compiled into the kernel, but I tend to include stuff link the NIC
> driver too, because it's used all the time.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Simon
Well thats what I said but he swears he's done it right so I am 
having a go myself to see what the story is. More soon...
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Stephen Harker
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