Re: System is too big

Cameron Simpson (cs@zip.com.au)
Wed, 7 Apr 1999 05:41:11 +0000

On 7 Apr 1999, in message <Pine.LNX.3.95.990406154453.2608A-100000@chaos.analogic.com>
"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> wrote:
| On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Ihr Name wrote:
| > I wanted to compile the kernel (2.0.36) on my P2 300 with 163840 kb
| > memory. make dep; make clean; make zImage are done without any warnings
| > or errors. But only until the end of make zImage. These are the last
| > eight lines I always receive: [...]
| > Setup is 4416 bytes.
| > System is 526 kb
| > System is too big
| > make [1]: *** [zImage] Error 1
[...]
| make bzImage

Everyone says this, and I know it works (had to figure it out myself
some months ago) but I'd like to know: bzip2 is a better compression;
if it's just the better compression ratio then people could be bitten
by this again in a while, with no fallback. If, on the other hand, the
bzImage is a fundamentally different storage layout without this
(undocumented?) size limit, why make a zImage at all these days?

Details wanted!

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Cameron Simpson, DoD#743        cs@zip.com.au    http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/


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