[Gllug] error kernel compile

Daniel P. Berrange dan at berrange.com
Tue Dec 2 10:34:50 UTC 2003


On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 10:19:28AM +0000, Andrew Halliwell wrote:
> And verily, didst Richard Cohen announce to the hordes:
> > 
> > On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Hari Pillai wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi All,
> > > While I run 'make zImage' during kernel compile, getting the error shown
> > > below, 'System is too big. Try using bzImage or modules'.
> > > Any ideas how I could rectify this..
> > 
> > Well... you could try using bzImage or modules :-)
> 
> Good grief...
> What howto was Hari reading to use zImage anyway?!
> That's not been recommended since before 2.0.x kernels, has it?

Which begs the question, why is it still present in the Makefiles ?

Guess, it must have some small niche use-case...

Dan.
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