Re: LILO & Kernel Image too big
Juan Ramon Jimenez Garcia wrote:
> Hi..
> Did you make a 'make zImage' or a 'make bzImage'?
>
> With make bzImage you will get a compressed kernel.
Actually, it gets compressed with either of those two methods. I'm guessing
that he copied the wrong file from ... wherever it is that the files come
from. I always use bzlilo ... can't remember where the various files get
dropped.
Thing is, there's a pre-compression file that gets left somewhere, and then
there's the post-compression file. My guess is that it was the
pre-compression file that he copied.
Ah, there it is. According to the Kernel-HOWTO ...
7.11. `Not a compressed kernel Image file''
Don't use the vmlinux file created in /usr/src/linux as your boot
image; [..]/arch/i386/boot/bzImage is the right one.
I'd guess it was the vmlinux file that he grabbed.
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