Hi, I'm building new kernel under linux enviornment. When i compiled the kernel it gave me following error: Kernel is too big for standalone boot from floopy. Is anyone know why i get this error? And how could i fix this error in order to compile the kernel successfully. Thanks for your help and time.

Don't woory about it....unless of course you want to put it onto a standalone boot floppy! It may be because you have loads of modules which won't all fit into ~1.5Mb...you should still be able to make a boot floppy for your system with the "mkbootdisk" command.

Aren't kernel compiling errors wonderful. 3Dave is right though, this is nothing to worry about, we all get that message (except the people who build Linux boot-floppies of course)

Hi, Thanks to both of you for your reply. As I'm new at Linux. Could you please let me know that should i proceed from the point where I got this compilation error. I mean, I did make bzImage and got this error so, now should proceed with: make modules make modules_install and complete the remaining in building the new kernel. Or do I need to do mkbootfloopy after i got this error? Thanks.

its not an error, the kernel build system is just warning you that the kernel image is too big to put on a floppy (which I think you don't want to do anyway) You can do make modules, make modules_install from here. And then you have to setup either lilo or grub to boot the new image. For that, first copy the file arch/i386/boot/bzImage to /boot/vmlinuz-custom and edit /etc/lilo.conf or /boot/grub/menu.lst to boot the new image. If you're using lilo, you have to type "lilo" after editing.

You can also do a "make install" at the end, but make a backup of your /boot first as it might overwrite your current kernel etc.