Re: building compressed kernel

[Peter Keel <killer@discordia.ch>]

* on the Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 07:31:23AM +0800, Onno Benschop was blubbering:
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Thomas Seyrat wrote:
> >Does anyone on the list know how to make compressed sparc kernels?
> 
> Uhm, from the usr/src/linux/README:
> 
>   - do a "make zImage" to create a compressed kernel image.  If you want
>     to make a bootdisk (without root filesystem or lilo), insert a floppy
>     in your A: drive, and do a "make zdisk".  It is also possible to do
>     "make zlilo" if you have lilo installed to suit the kernel makefiles,
>     but you may want to check your particular lilo setup first.
> 
>   - if your kernel is too large for "make zImage", use "make bzImage"
>     instead.
> 
> Or am I missing something?

You do. That's for Intel. It won't work neither on Sparc, nor on Alpha. 

Peter
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