Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 10 Nov 2000 19:03:25 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: bzImage ~ 900K with i386 test11-pre2 |
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Max Inux wrote: > > 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. >
gzip, actually. I can verify here "make bzImage" does the expected thing and it looks normal-sized to me.
> > On x86 machines there is a size limitation on booting. Though I thought > it was 1024K as the max, 900K should be fine. >
No, there isn't. There used to be, but it has been fixed.
-hpa
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