Steve Pauly wrote:
>
> On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, zentara wrote:
> >
> > Well modularization is now neccessary for most systems.
>
> Agreed. Please read the article to see why most people will not need to
> recompile.
>
> > Have you noticed how many people complain about the
> > error message "kernel too big" ?
>
> I thought the issue about big kernels mainly revolved around "make zImage"
> vs. "make bzImage". The times zImage didn't work, bzImage cured it, in my
> experience.
I think bzImage just compresses better, so as we are reaching the
kernel size limit, bzipping is giving us some extra room.
> > I think Hubert has said that the kernel must be able to boot
> > within the old 640k dos limit.
>
> I looked for Hubert's comment on the archive but could not find it. Could
> someone clarify this "old 640k dos limit" issue? The kernel howto was not
> enlightening about it.
I was thinking some more about this. Wouldn't it be possible to have a
standard
small kernel which loads, then hands control over to a kernel of any
size?
>
> Nevertheless, I will compile a humongus(sp) monolithic kernel and see if
> it installs.
Try a 5 meg for size. :-)
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