Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 24 Jan 1999 16:44:29 +0000 (GMT) | From | Riley Williams <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.0-final |
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Hi Tom.
>>>> 1. If I compile a 2.2.0-pre9 kernel with "make bzImage", the >>>> resulting kernel does NOT boot up on my Toshiba laptop - it >>>> just reports "Out of memory, system halted". Compiling a >>>> 2.0.36 kernel with "make bzImage" results in one that DOES >>>> boot up, and runs quite happily...
>>> Interesting - I saw this happen on my Toshiba laptop with -pre6 >>> so I switched to zImage and got it working. Once I had a working >>> zImage, I made a bzImage with the same .conf and that one worked. >>> I'm now running -pre9 bzImage with no problems.
>> Having read that last night, I went home and used "make zImage" >> and "make bzImage" on the configuration that "make zImage" worked >> on the said laptop, copied them both over to the laptop, made >> entries in /etc/lilo.conf for both of them, then tried them both >> out...
>> Once again, the zImage version worked, and the bzImage version >> didn't, so there's definately something here - and, since they're >> both built from the same configuration file...
>> Mind if I ask a couple of questions:
>> 1. How much RAM do you have, Tom?
> 32 MB.
>> 2. Is there a minimum RAM size for bzImage to work?
> Don't know.
Neither do I, but given the above answers, I have to assume it does indeed have a minimum RAM size, and that minimum is somewhere between the 12M that I have and the 32M that you have...
Alan: Any ideas?
Best wishes from Riley.
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