Good question!
This got me thinking. I do most of my work remotely aswell, so I just did a
make bzImage locally and it didn't like it all (it wasn't needed the kernel
was fine with make zImage) So, I'd be careful about doing it and also look
into it some more. Chances are there are some docs on it in your kernel
tree. I'll read up on it later myself.
The only way that I know to find out if you need to make bzImage is to make
zImage first and if it craps out then do bzImage. I remember seeing the
error before but my solution was to remove some stuff from the kernel that
wasn't really needed. If you do zImage and it craps out, I'd suggest you go
through your kernel and see what could be loaded as a module, Be careful
though, as some modules rely on some other module/s to be loaded first. eg
ppp.o requires slhc.o / ne.o requires 8390.0 etc....
Keep the phone number for Fed-X handy. ;)
Dan
At 03:44 AM 4/18/98 -0400, William T Wilson wrote:
>Who knows a way to determine if a given kernel needs to be compiles as a
>zImage or as a bzImage? I need to upgrade a particular system remotely
>and I'd really prefer that it not crash (it is 1,500 miles away from me
>and I have the only key to the room!). Therefore, it is imperative that I
>know BEFORE installing the kernel, whether it should be a zImage or a
>bzImage. Is it safe to just use bzImage and have no adverse effects if
>the bzImage is unnecessary, or... ?
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