On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 04:02:45PM +0100, c-3 wrote: > > And is there a way to compile a non compressed kernel image? whenever you build a kernel (using any target zImage bzImage or vmlinux) you will always have a uncompressed ELF kernel in the top level kernel source directory at the end of the build. if you use make-kpkg you have to make it stop auto cleaning the source at the end of the build since it does not package uncompressed kernels on x86 (it does on powerpc, and packages a simple gzipped vmlinux for sparc). make vmlinux will just skip building the various compressed images. i am not certain its possible to boot an uncompressed kernel on x86 due to its braindamaged architecture. (depends on the bootloader, lilo/grub) it is most certainly impossible to boot one without a bootloader at all (unlike bzImage). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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