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From: scibp6p@panix.com (Boris Pitel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Kernel too big?
Date: 19 Jun 1994 23:44:37 -0400
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
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Boris Pitel (scibp6p@panix.com) wrote:
: Hi, everybody!
: I am trying to include a Sound Blaster driver to the kernel.
: In order to do that, I inserted 2 SB related lines from /sys/i386/conf/LINT
: into the copy of GENERICAH, then run config <name>,make depend, make in the
: appropriate directiry, copied the new kernel say boris to / and rebooted the
: machine.
: At time of reboot at the prompt I gave the name of alt. kernel,
: and the system respone is:
: "The kernel is too big, the only hope is to link ......"
: The size of the new kernel is little bit bigger then GENERICAH
: - is about 590000 K, is it so critical?
: The question: What's wrong I am doing?
: Thanks in advance!
: Boris Pitel
Sorry folks, I forget in my post to tell you that I am using FreeBSD 1.01
PS.
When you recompile the kernel, the make uses (as I understand this) the
sys/i386/conf/files.i386, which contains a list of all parts to make up the
kernel. The one I have contains a lot of drivers I am not using, again to best
of my understanding. May be I should some of them to comment out?
Boris Pitel
Thanks for your help.