Re: can't build small enough zImage for floppy

2001-01-14 Thread alex
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 06:54:15AM -0600, Jordan wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I forgot to ask.. when attempting to boot from a floppy, are you using > > SYSLINUX, or something else? What version? > > unsure. I have booted floppies on my machine before which displayed SYSLINUX on > b

Re: can't build small enough zImage for floppy

2001-01-12 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, Jan 12 2001, Jordan wrote: > 1st, the Sony Vaio Z505HS appears to be an example of a machine which > will not boot a bzImage correctly, compaining about the compression > format. I have this exact model too, and it boots bzImage just fine. In fact, I've never booted anything but bzImage's

Re: can't build small enough zImage for floppy

2001-01-12 Thread Manfred Bartz
Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1st, the Sony Vaio Z505HS appears to be an example of a machine which > will not boot a bzImage correctly, compaining about the compression > format. Maybe you need to upgrade to a newer version of lilo? > 2nd, trying to build kernel 2.4.0, I stripped out or

Re: can't build small enough zImage for floppy

2001-01-12 Thread alex
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 03:48:23PM -0600, Jordan wrote: > 1st, the Sony Vaio Z505HS appears to be an example of a machine which > will not boot a bzImage correctly, compaining about the compression > format. I can say from experience that this is not the case. In fact, the kernel binaries (RPM)

can't build small enough zImage for floppy

2001-01-12 Thread Jordan
1st, the Sony Vaio Z505HS appears to be an example of a machine which will not boot a bzImage correctly, compaining about the compression format. 2nd, trying to build kernel 2.4.0, I stripped out or module-ized everything I could (I think) including SCSCI support, the smallest I've gotten zImage