The previous system size with all the patches and NE* Ethernet, aic7xxx SCSI
was 506 kb.
the new system (supposably the same) is 531 kb. This results in an error.
I don't know why this is an error because it certainly will fit on
a floppy and it will certainly fit between 1000:0 and 9000:FFFF in
real mode, when loaded. Nevertheless, I built bzImage instead.
objcopy -O binary -R .note -R .comment -S compressed/vmlinux compressed/vmlinux.out
tools/build bootsect setup compressed/vmlinux.out CURRENT > zImage
Root device is (8, 1)
Boot sector 512 bytes.
Setup is 1252 bytes.
System is 531 kB
System is too big
make[1]: *** [zImage] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.1.36/arch/i386/boot'
make: *** [zImage] Error 2
Building bzImage works. However, EVEN THOUGH I COPIED IT TO A FLOPPY,
somehow the boot sector of my hard disk got "reconfigured" so the
hard disk would not boot after I found that the new system would not
boot. This was a major pain in the ass because I was left with an
unbootable system even though I was careful to copy the new system
onto a floppy and not touch my hard disk. This is my "standard" script
that I use for testing kernels. I edited it change zImage to bzImage.
That is all.
# cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage .
# ROOTDEV=`df / | cut -d ' ' -f1 | sed -e1d`
# echo -n 'Setting root device as ' ; echo ${ROOTDEV}
# rdev -R bzImage 1
# rdev bzImage ${ROOTDEV}
# cp bzImage /dev/fd0
Anyway. The new SMP kernel will not boot. It crashes as soon as the
second CPU is initialized. This results in an immediate reboot.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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