13 Apr
2007
13 Apr
'07
3:46 p.m.
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote:
How do I figure out which drivers to deselect from menuconfig?
modularize ... turn everything you dont need to actually open the root filesystem and get network access into a module ... well, maybe not everything, but you get the hint
Alternatively, I was playing with Debian 3.1/Sarge on an Ultra 2 not too long ago, and I believe that newer versions of SILO will deal with gzipped kernels correctly. I built a no-module kernel using all the hardware I knew I had and gzipped it, it ended up being a tad over 1 MB for my Ultra 2-specific 2.4.34, and had no problem firing up from SILO. Dmesg will give (the OP) a pretty good idea of what the generic kernel is seeing. Brian J. Conway