Re: Compiling 2.6.11?!
According to c m,
>
> --- Eric Scott <scottishbug@cwazy.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hey;
> > I downloaded the 2.6.11.6 Kernel source today to
> > tinker with compiling.
> > I've never (successfully) compiled & run a Linux
> > kernel before... so
> > bare with me...
> >
> > I got through the kernel compile by doing 'make
> > bzImage' ('make zImage'
> > gave some kindof "system to big" error and suggested
> > I try make
> > bzImage... I have no clue what exactly the
> > difference is... an
> > explanation would be helpful).
>
> from
> http://www.ibiblio.org/oswg/oswg-nightly/oswg/en_US.ISO_8859-1/articles/alessandro-rubini/boot/boot/zimage.html
>
> The boot steps shown up to now rely on the assumption
> that the compressed kernel can fit in half a meg of
> space. While the assumption holds most of the times, a
> system stuffed of device drivers might not fit any
> more. ... new machinery is needed to fix the problem.
> This something is called bzImage, and has been
> introduced in kernel version 1.3.73.
And the other machinery to fix the problem is the initrd,
which lets device drivers normally required for boot live
outside the kernel itself.
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