Re: zImage not supported for 2.2.20?

[Petri Kaukasoina <kaukasoi@elektroni.ee.tut.fi>]

On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 01:11:42PM +0000, Roy Hills wrote:
> The old 2.2.17 zImage kernel that runs fine has a filesize of 462060 bytes and
> reports 784k kernel code, 412k reserved, 1168k data, 36k init.
> 
> The new 2.2.20 zImage kernel that fails has a filesize of 482795 bytes.
> Note that the actual problem with Toshiba tecra laptops and bzImage files is
> a known hardware problem (something to do with the A20 line).  I'm not trying
> to address this problem, just why the normal workaround (use zImage rather
> than bzImage to keep in conventional memory) doesn't work any more with
> 2.2.20.

Hi, I used to make zImages, but for no specific reason. The last working
version was 2.2.20pre3. 2.2.20pre5 gave Out of memory -- System halted. I
reported it a few months ago:
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0108.2/0363.html

This was the only change then that looks like it:

o       Add support for the 2.4 boot extensions to 2.2  (H Peter Anvin)