Messages in this thread |  | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: zImage not supported for 2.2.20? | Date | 28 Dec 2001 18:25:06 -0800 |
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Followup to: <20011228223604.A370@elektroni.ee.tut.fi> By author: Petri Kaukasoina <kaukasoi@elektroni.ee.tut.fi> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Hi, I was one that reported the problem that zImage doesn't work. I don't > personally care whether it works or not because bzImages are fine for my > machines. Anyway, 2.2.20pre3 was ok but 2.2.20pre5 was not. I just rechecked > with 2.2.20 final. I compiled 2.2.20 'make zImage; make bzImage' for one old > 486 and for one pentium. Both print Out of memory and System halted for the > zImages and work fine with bzImages. > > 486: > > Memory: 47176k/49152k available (796k kernel code, 408k reserved, 728k data, 44k init) > text data bss dec hex filename > 853655 90740 125288 1069683 105273 vmlinux > -rwxr-xr-x 1 kaukasoi users 1111776 Dec 28 21:46 vmlinux > -rw-r--r-- 1 kaukasoi users 458880 Dec 28 21:46 bzImage > -rw-r--r-- 1 kaukasoi users 458877 Dec 28 21:46 zImage > > pentium: > > Memory: 63516k/65536k available (736k kernel code, 416k reserved, 828k data, 40k init) > text data bss dec hex filename > 788441 90140 105768 984349 f051d vmlinux > -rwxr-xr-x 1 kaukasoi users 1098107 Dec 28 22:04 vmlinux > -rw-r--r-- 1 kaukasoi users 442277 Dec 28 22:04 bzImage > -rw-r--r-- 1 kaukasoi users 442277 Dec 28 22:04 zImage > > I compiled them with gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 > release) and binutils 2.11.90.0.19 (tehy are the versions that come with > Slackware 8.0). The pentium uses LILO version 19 and the 486 uses version > 21.7-5. > > If you think those are too large kernels for zImage, e.g. this 2.2.19 works > ok on the 486: > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 476269 Aug 11 23:32 zImage > Memory: 47136k/49152k available (832k kernel code, 412k reserved, 728k data, 44k init) > -
Machine/motherboard/chipset/BIOS info?
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