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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!panix!not-for-mail 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 Lines: 26 Message-ID: <2u33b5$gbv@panix3.panix.com> References: <2u2tp6$dlv@panix3.panix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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.