Re: The lilo problem
THIS IS NOT A LILO PROBLEM. There is no benefit to making zImage instead
of bzImage kernels on the i386 architecture. I concede that there are
backward compatibility issues with older kernels, but there are ways of
fixing this which are under consideration. Lilo has to make choices
between limits imposed by the ROM BIOS, and there are trade-offs.
However, you lose absolutely nothing on i386 by always making bzImage
kernels instead of zImage.
I suppose decompression time is an issue relative to a completely
uncompressed kernel, but this is a factor only on the slowest possible
machines that can run Linux, such as the 16 MHz 386SX mentioned earlier.
Still, there is no important compression or load time distinction between
zImage and bzImage at all.
-- Mike
On 2000-05-21 at 23:32 +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> David Butts wrote:
>
> > Out of curiosity, how long has it been since a full kernel fit in 512Kb?
>
> I guess I may be an exception here, but my kernels are on average
> around 460 Kb. What really annoyed me about the new lilo version
> was that it refused to install even this zImage. Made me wonder
> how small the new lilo wants its zImages to be before it'll work...
>
> I just downgraded to the previous version of lilo and everything
> worked fine again :)
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