Re: uncompressed image too long?
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 10:39:34AM -0500, Mike Edwards wrote:
> vmlinuz itself is 1821650 bytes, though, so I'm not sure why I'm running
> into this limit (is the uncompressed image really > 3.5 MB?).
>
> Also - would I not run into the same problem if I tried to use the vmlinux
> image?
The size of vmlinuz isn't the issue...it's the uncompressed size.
Doesn't make a difference if it's compressed or not.
So just do "zcat vmlinuz > vmlinux" and you can see the size.
> And lastly - I'm using make-kpkg to create a custom kernel package for
> this. How can I have it use the vmlinux image instead of vmlinuz?
Latest kernel-package in unstable will use the correct file.
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