[PLUG] Kernel question
Terry Griffin
griffint at pobox.com
Fri Oct 10 15:46:01 UTC 2003
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 02:29:45PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Terry Griffin wrote:
>
> > vmlinux is the uncompressed kernel. It comes in handy for
> > kernel debugging. It is not generally useful for non-developers.
>
> I thought so, Terry. The recommendation is always to build a compressed
> kernel with bzImage; should I make vmlinuz a softlink to that?
>
> Please excuse my denseness; I'm trying to juggle three projects and two
> proposals with getting my new system up and running reliably.
>
Yes, you *must* build a compressed kernel and link to that. The
uncompressed kernel is not bootable.
Terry
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