[ale] CDROM - where is it?

[Steven A DuChene]

Quynh wrote:
> Yes, actually I realized late last night that I needed to recompile the
> kernel with ide/atapi enabled.  Novice that I am, I thought that if the
> setup had recognized it that the linux kernel was set to recognize it
> as well.  I was finally able to recompile and find where the new kernel
> was placed at around 3am.  But, when I reinstalled lilo with /sbin/lilo
> it said that the kernel was too large.  It was almost twice the size
> of my old kernel.  I'm going to try to recompile it, enabling fewer
> options and see if that helps, but if anyone knows why it's so much
> bigger when all I really wanted to enable ide and soundblaster ... please
> let me know.
> 

Your original installed kernel was most likely pretty well modularized
so that is why it was so small. You can either do the module thing again
or use a "make bzImage" instead of "make zImage" since this creates a kernel
with a different type of compression (read more efficient & smaller) and
therefore allows lilo to load a "larger" size kernel.

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