On 1/20/2010 00:10, Andrew Benton wrote: > 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
Hi, compression is needed if space is premium, especially on embedded boards. I'm not sure about grub though. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
