Re: Running 2.3

[Michel <da...@re...>]

Frank Petzold wrote:

> > > I have tried to run the 2.3 tree from the CVS yesterday, but the
> > > bootstrap says: kernel image too large (or something like that).
> >
> > Hmm, that shouldn't happen, what does "objdump -frp vmlinux" say?
> 
> I don't know now, but the uncompressed file was >6MB. And the
> object files were compiled with -g.

Strange. The kernel I built yesterday is 1709372 bytes. You'll have to
investigate why -g gets involved.


> I even tried to limit the RAM to 64MB
> to have enough space for decompressing the kernel.

Maybe it would work if you used the uncompressed kernel in the first place?


Michel


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