Re: System is too big. Try using bzImage or modules.

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
7 Jan 1999 01:34:51 GMT

Followup to: <199901052330.PAA17798@Midnight.Hacking.in.the.land.of.Kalifornia.com>
By author: David <david@kalifornia.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Your zImage *is* too big. Continue to use bzImage instead of zImage as
> the error message suggests. Software grows in size. Boot code is
> contrained to a given size. If X exceeeds Y, then use a better
> compression for X.
>

Wrong, sorry. bzImages are "big zImages" and have nothing to do with
bzip (both zImage and bzImage use gzip). The difference is that in
the bzImage format the 512K limit has been removed.

-hpa

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