Recompiling my Kernel

Ok, i just installed redhat 8. I want to recompile the kernel to add pcmcia support to it. Does anyone know if or where redhat puts the .config file it used during the installation to configure the kernel? I really dont want to have to go through each option and set it up one by one. If i could just find the current config setup and then simply add pcmcia support to it, it would make my life much much easier. Thanks for the help!

-Mr.K

Ok, then how about this question. lol

I get the following error's during compilation:


Is there some way to make my boot sector bigger? lol. Thanks for the help.

-Mr.K

Too big.

You need to shrink the system by putting things in modules - put as much as you can in modules, make the whole system run on loadable modules! Ok.. maybe that's not possible, but seriously, put as much in modules as you can instead of building it right into the kernel. Also, did you do 'make bzImage' (as opposed to say... 'make zImage')?

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BTW... you can still boot it from the HDD, you just can't put it on a floppy - that's all the message is saying AFAIK
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It's possible You just have to use an initrd to put some of the more crucial modules (like, your root filesystem) on.

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use # make bzImage instead of make zImage for larger kernels

christo

Just to clear something up even though I'm not sure if this is what you are implying or not, but bzImage doesn't make smaller kernels, it just doesn't have the silly 512KB limit that zImage does. (the "bz" stands for "big zip" not "bzip2" - although it's a common misconception)