Re: Question about recompiling kernel ...

[Arcady Genkin <genkin@sympatico.ca>]

William R Pentney <pentney@cse.Buffalo.EDU> writes:

> I'm currently compiling the 2.2 kernel for my slink system (it's
> relatively stable, right?), and I used "make bzImage" to create it. The
> README says to copy zImage to the current kernel image, but should I copy
> bzImage instead? (I just want to be sure before I do it ... the
> documentation's a little vague on it.)

That's why you should usually do "make zImage". "make bzImage" is
needed if the zImage turns out to be too big, or if you want to put
the image onto a floppy. In other words, bzImage is compressed more
than zImage.

So, AFAIK you can use bzImage just the same way as zImage. Don't
forget to update your /etc/lilo.conf to reflect the right name. If
this is your first kernel compile then you probably have an image named 
vmlinuz in your lilo.conf. Change that for zImage.

Then *IMPORTANT* don't forget to run lilo before you restart - or you
won't be able to boot. (Sorry if I am saying obvious things here, but
it's a common mistake).

-- 
Arcady Genkin
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