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SubjectRe: LILO falsely reports big kernel?
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Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.10002201356570.3262-100000@maverick.riffe.us.eu.org>
By author: Nate Riffe <inkblot@geocities.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
>
> L-K,
>
> Just now LILO has reported that my freshly compiled kernel was too big
> (472855 bytes) which is smaller than some of the other kernels installed
> here (617431 bytes, for example). Oddly enough, when I recompiled using
> bzImage instead of zImage, I got a kernel 1 byte bigger that LILO
> accepted. Is there some logical explanation for this behavior?
>

Yes. The "b" in "bzImage" stands for "big".

-hpa
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