Re: kernel build (compression) problem

Matthew Wilcox (Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com)
Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:33:26 +0200

On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 09:11:57PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > The compile and link succeeded but it failed to compress. I had many fewer
> > components and modules in my kernel (than in the CD-ROM shipped default),
> > but neither mine nor the default would compress. Anyone know what might be
> > wrong here? When it says, "use bzImage", what is meant?
> > thanks,
>
> bzImage is stronger compression. make bzImage rather than make zImage should
> suffice.

No, it isn't. bzImage stands for big zImage; it has nothing to do with
the more recent bzip2 compression. This is such a common misconception,
I wish it were possible to get rid of zImages and rename bzImages,
but it seems that some hardware is not capable of running bzImages.

-- 
Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai>
"Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of
specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a
painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson


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