Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: System is too big. Try using bzImage or modules. | Date | 8 Jan 1999 18:00:57 GMT |
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Followup to: <199901071048.LAA28116@mehl.gfz-potsdam.de> By author: Steffen Grunewald <steffen@gfz-potsdam.de> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Robert Kiesling wrote: > |> > |> > |> > |> Your zImage *is* too big. Continue to use bzImage instead of zImage as > |> the error message suggests. Software grows in size. Boot code is > |> contrained to a given size. If X exceeeds Y, then use a better > |> compression for X. > |> > |> It seems like an artificial constraint, but I haven't had time to look > |> into it. Maybe there's a good reason for it. Maybe fixing it is just > |> a project for a rainy afternoon or something. Thanks! > > As I understand it, the size limitation for zImage (to something about > 640 KB - y"know that number ?) it primarily caused by the boot BIOS > running in 16 bit mode. > If it takes one rainy afternoon to fix that, step forward. > BTW: Not all people use LILO, neither loadlin. > Of course, a multi-step boot (like SILO does) would be helpful, but > then it's something like LILO again... >
You need support in the boot loader. Period. The "fix" is bzImage.
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