ThinkPad actually reboots into new kernel

[Pollywog <pollywog@shadypond.com>]

Can anyone tell me why on my ThinkPad, I can compile a kernel with 'make
zImage' instead of 'make bzImage'?  I cannot do this with my other machine
which has 64MB RAM; it won't be able to load the kernel because it is
too large.

I was surprised that I actually got my ThinkPad to boot into the new kernel.
I did 'make zImage' because I found out a few days ago that laptops have
trouble with compressed kernels.  I could never get the ThinkPad to boot to a
newer kernel after I used 'make bzImage'.

I am just wondering why I can get away with 'make zImage' on the laptop when a
larger machine can't handle it.

--
Andrew