On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 13:00, Tim Wunder orated thus:
> > Holy crap! 1.15MB?? What did you compile into that kernel? The
> > largest kernel that i ever built was 685K, and it had the SCSI support
> > built in.
>
> Well, I don't really know. Ignorance is bliss, you know. I DID determine
> that I had smp enabled. Probly because I didn't read all the entries when I
> went thru that section of make xconfig. I guess that coulda added some size
> to the kernel. I also compiled in my sound card drivers, SCSI stuff, USB
> stuff.
>
> Between your recommendation of compiling in AIC7xxx support and Bruce
> Marshals recommendation of compiling everything as modules. I'm at a loss
> on what to do.
>
> I re-ran make xconfig. Left as much out as I could and compiled my sound
> card as a module and the SCSI card I compiled into the kernel. I removed
> the USB stuff. The goal being to compile a kernel that works first, and
> then re-compile and add stuff in later, if I need it. Problem is, I'm now
> getting more errors during 'make bzImage'.
>
> After 'make dep', I get a message that .../include/linux/modversions.h was
> not updated. When I do 'make bzImage', I get a slew of errors all relating
> to modversions.h. I ran 'make clean' before and after 'make dep', and I get
> the same errors. Fairly frustrating, I must say. It's been a while since I
> felt this dim.
Why don't you email us with exactly what you have in hardware plus what you
need in software and i'll do you a config file you can load into the xconfig
and see what I have selected. That way you might get an idea whats needed and
whats not
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