Re: uncompressed image too long?
Ben, which compiler should I be using to compile this beast? egcs64? Or
is there something newer by now?
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 11:12:30AM -0500, Ben Collins said:
> Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 11:12:30 -0500
> From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
> To: Mike Edwards <sauron-debian-sparc@psychology.rutgers.edu>
> Cc: D Lambrou <dlambrou@crazylinux.net>, debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: uncompressed image too long?
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> 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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