Kernel Compiling

**stryder144** · 07-05-2002, 09:25 AM

I'm just curious. I would like to see how people choose what to compile as modules and what gets included in the kernel itself.

07-05-2002, 09:42 AM

everything except agpgart and radeon get compiled in.

**Schotty** · 07-05-2002, 12:54 PM

I like modules

Makes life easier for me.

**SpookyEddy** · 07-05-2002, 02:29 PM

I have the unfotunate habit of building far to much stuff as modules

My main box has atleast 10 & probably closer to 20 modules loaded on boot, including.....

iptables stuff like contrack etc
support for 2 nics
scsi emulation
i2c & other stuff for lmsensors
usb stuff including hid & mass storage
cdrom support
SB Live support

Perhaps its time for a recompile

Regards eddy

**pbharris** · 07-06-2002, 01:00 AM

i see 2.4.19-rc1 is out - i compiled it the other day because it has been so lonnggggg. anywho - modules all the way!!

**jafo** · 07-09-2002, 01:56 AM

this is for pbharris, hey dude I followed your howto for compiling the kernel (2.2.21) everything went smooth until I tried to update lilo I got a kernel /boot221/vmlinuz is too big error msg. any help would be appreciated...

**pbharris** · 07-09-2002, 02:51 AM

hi jafo,
do you have vmlinuz or vmlinux as the entry for the image too boot? if vmlinuz then that is correct (the z means its compressed), also make sure you ran make bzImage and not make zImage

Any chance you ran make bzlilo ?

what you need to do if you are selecting the vmlinuz image is just run /sbin/lilo -b /dev/hda after compiling, this specifys lilo to install to the MBR of the master hard drive, for some reason LILO does not like images over 1.44 MB in size from what i remember.