Re: bzImage ~ 900K with i386 test11-pre2

From: Max Inux (maxinux@bigfoot.com)
Date: Fri Nov 10 2000 - 21:25:43 EST


On 10 Nov 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>Different compile options?
>
>Why is a 900K kernel unusable?
>
> -hpa

My guess would be it not actually bzipping the kernel. Id run make
bzImage again and making sure it is bzipping it.

On x86 machines there is a size limitation on booting. Though I thought
it was 1024K as the max, 900K should be fine.

William Tiemann
wtiemann@openpgp.net
http://www.OpenPGP.Net

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