On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 07:57:05AM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > Alain Toussaint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > also,another question,what's the difference between a zImage kernel and > > a bzImage one ? > The kind of compression. bzImage ist compressed with a better algorithm. No, they are both gzip -9 compressed. A bzImage will be loaded differently on booting. This is at a time when the BIOS is still running so the CPU is still in real mode and the [EMAIL PROTECTED] 640k barrier strikes again.
Does anybody know what the maximum size of a bzImage is? Nils -- *-----------------------------------------------------------------------------* | Quotes from the net: L> Linus Torvalds, W> Winfried Truemper | | L>this is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | W>Umh, oh. What do you mean by "special easter release"?. Will it quit | * W>working today and rise on easter? *
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