Error compiling kernel

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Tony Mai wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I tried to recompile the kernel to include supports
> for Toshiba laptop. After 30 minutes or so into the
> 'make zImage', the compiler stop and gave me the
> following error:
>
> Root device is (3,2)
> Boot sector 512 bytes
> Setup is 5039 bytes
> System is 1538 bytes
> System is too big. Try using bzImage or modules.
>
> Question: What does this mean and why would it care so
> much about such minicure memory that it aborted the
> entire process?
>
> Everything worked after I followed its advice and did
> a 'make bzImage'.

ack, never mind, i didn't read far enough to notice that you'd already 
done that.  sorry about answering a question that wasn't asked.  argh.

rday