From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261409AbTICCwl (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Sep 2003 22:52:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261447AbTICCwl (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Sep 2003 22:52:41 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:19104 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261409AbTICCwk (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Sep 2003 22:52:40 -0400 Message-ID: <32886.4.4.25.4.1062557559.squirrel@www.osdl.org> Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 19:52:39 -0700 (PDT) Subject: RE: Compressed VMLINUX Kernel From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: In-Reply-To: <004801c371c1$fc64b0f0$6501a8c0@zephyr> References: <004801c371c1$fc64b0f0$6501a8c0@zephyr> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Cc: X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I was wondering, is there some method or utility that will allow me to > compress my kernel (vmlinux)? I was running an alpha and bzImage and zImage > don’t work. I read all the mans that I could lay my grubby little hands on > but none of them mentioned HOW one is the compress a vmlinux kernel. > The reason ask this is, I boot to linux using an OLD IDE drive and it takes > sometime to read a 7mb file. I noticed that the original kernel > (Redhat/Compaq derivative) was compressed and somewhat smaller, about less > than half the size. Thanks, Will L G Kernel version? In 2.4.22 and 2.6.0-test, there are targets for ALPHA called vmlinux.gz. Have you tried 'make vmlinux.gz' ? ~Randy