Re: It's time to get rid of zImage

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Fri Jun 16 2000 - 18:25:55 EST


Followup to: <380089770.961163862388.JavaMail.root@web428-wra.mail.com>
By author: Frank Davis <fdavis112@juno.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> >How are you booting now?
>
> I'm using loadlin to boot a bzImage of the 2.3.36 kernel...From
> there, I'm patching my kernel to the latest release. I can't seem
> to use the same procedure for a later kernel, eg. 2.4.0-test1-ac16
> . It appears that sometime after 2.3.36, files were changed such
> that when you try to boot a bzImage, it reboots at boot time. But,
> which files and in which patch?
>

OK, lacking evidence to the contrary, this isn't a zImage versus
bzImage thing and thus doesn't fall within the scope of this
discussion. You just can't boot your new kernels, although that's a
separate problem.

        -hpa

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