RE: Compressed VMLINUX Kernel

RE: Compressed VMLINUX Kernel

[Will L G]

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
 

RE: Compressed VMLINUX Kernel

[Randy.Dunlap]

> 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

Re: Compressed VMLINUX Kernel

[Willy Tarreau]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:20:46PM -0500, Will L G wrote:
> 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
>  

I'm pretty sure I already booted mine with a vmlinux.gz kernel which simply was
a gzip applied to a normal vmlinux image.

Regards,
willy

Re: Compressed VMLINUX Kernel

[Thorsten Kranzkowski]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:20:46PM -0500, Will L G wrote:
> 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

use 'make boot' instead. this will create arch/alpha/boot/vmlinux.gz

> 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

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