[PLUG] Kernel question

[Terry Griffin]

On Friday 10 October 2003 06:29 am, Rich Shepard wrote:
>   What is the relationship between bzImage and vmlinux (with an 'x')? I
> know that vmlinuz (with the 'z') is a soft link to the desired version of
> vmlinux.
>
>   I built the new kernal for slack-9.1 with 'make bzImage'. I copied that
> to /boot, but I'm not sure what to do about the vmlinux still in
> .../arch/i386/boot/. Do I copy that to /boot with the version number
> appended, then recreate the vmlinuz soft link?
>

vmlinux is the uncompressed kernel. It comes in handy for
kernel debugging. It is not generally useful for non-developers.

If you do wish to save vmlinux, it is normally copied to /boot with the
kernel version suffix added.

Terry