Juan Ramon Jimenez Garcia wrote: > Hi.. > Did you make a 'make zImage' or a 'make bzImage'? > > With make bzImage you will get a compressed kernel.
Actually, it gets compressed with either of those two methods. I'm guessing that he copied the wrong file from ... wherever it is that the files come from. I always use bzlilo ... can't remember where the various files get dropped. Thing is, there's a pre-compression file that gets left somewhere, and then there's the post-compression file. My guess is that it was the pre-compression file that he copied. Ah, there it is. According to the Kernel-HOWTO ... 7.11. `Not a compressed kernel Image file'' Don't use the vmlinux file created in /usr/src/linux as your boot image; [..]/arch/i386/boot/bzImage is the right one. I'd guess it was the vmlinux file that he grabbed. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E | for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV | beginning of all unwisdom.