Ok,
This may be totaly irrelevent man, but I had the same problem. I fixed it by
going to /usr/src/linux and doing "make menuconfig", it may be coincidence, but
it worked then. Hope that helped.
Mike
On 02-Jan-99 Zulfiqar Naushad wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> After careful consideration, I finally decided to try to recompile my kernel.
>
> I went to /usr/src/linux and ran the make xconfig from a kde window.
>
> Then, being a bit scared, all I did was change the CPU TYPE to 586. The
> manual
> said that it was more optimized for a Pentium processor. So I decided go for
> it.
>
> Anyways, I changed that, and then said SAVE AND EXIT.
>
> Then, I typed
>
> make dep clean zImage
>
> 3 minutes later after the kernel is compiled and zImage runs...... I get this
> error.....
>
> Root device is (3, 5)
> Boot sector 512 bytes.
> Setup is 4408 bytes.
> System is 526 kB
> System is too big
> make[1]: *** [zImage] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory /usr/src/linux-2.0.35.SuSE/arch/i386/boot'
> make: *** [zImage] Error 2
>
>
> Now I don't know what the error means........but does it have to do anything
> with
> HDD space?!
>
> Oh one more thing........
>
> I already copied the old kernel to /vmlinuz.old
>
> So I have the old kernel still intact (smart thinking eh!? )
>
> Please anyone, help me ASAP
>
> Zulfqar "Who is having lotsa fun with Linux, and thinks it rules" Naushad :-)
>
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