Hello, One of the new options in the 2.6.33 kernel is to use lzo compression. It has the worst compression ratio of the 4 options but it is the fastest at uncompressing the kernel. I'm not short of disk space so I chose that option but that led me on to wondering, why does the kernel need to be compressed at all? Is it possible to compile and boot a kernel without compression? Curiosity led me to try and boot the vmlinux file that's in the kernel source after compiling a new kernel but that failed with the grub message
error: invalid magic number Is it possible to compile and boot a kernel without compression? What am I doing wrong? Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
