--- Bruce Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 23 August 2001 11:03 am, Tim Wunder wrote:
> > More info and a possible solution:
> >
> > Here's the error output from the make bzImage:
> > pdc202xx.c: In function `config_chipset_for_dma':
> > pdc202xx.c:528: warning: `drive_pci' might be used uninitialized in
> this
> > function
> > make[4]: Circular passthrough.h <- hwaccess.h dependency dropped.
> > sb_card.c:512: warning: `id_table' defined but not used
> > dpcm.c: In function `dpcm_transport':
> > dpcm.c:46: warning: unused variable `ret'
> > namei.c: In function `msdos_lookup':
> > namei.c:237: warning: implicit declaration of function `fat_brelse'
> > namei.c: In function `msdos_add_entry':
> > namei.c:266: warning: implicit declaration of function
> > `fat_mark_buffer_dirty'
> > dmi_scan.c:181: warning: `disable_ide_dma' defined but not used
> > Root device is (3, 66)
> > Boot sector 512 bytes.
> > Setup is 4529 bytes.
> > System is 1153 kB
> > warning: kernel is too big for standalone boot from floppy
> >
> >
> > Someone recently mentioned to me that the last error regarding
> "kernel
> > is too big..." oftentimes results in an unbootable kernel. His
> > recommendation was to build everything in as modules and not to
> compile
> > anything extra into the kernel.
> >
> > Sound feasible?
>
> Yes... almost everything with the possible exceptions of your nic
> card
> driver, HD driver (scsi for example) and your main filesystem.
>
> In otherwords, it is usually a good thing to avoid the need for the
> initrd
> file (loaded with code at boot time) as much as possible unless you
> are quite
> familiar with its setup and use.
There's really no need to use an initrd, unless you are insistant on
making the SCSI support modular on a box where / is on a SCSI drive.
Compiling all the SCSI support into the kernel completely removes the
need for the initrd.
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