Re: [Linux-ia64] build a bootable kernel

David Mosberger
2002-10-28T07:31:41Z

>>>>> On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 14:49:11 +0800, "dai yiyang" <daiyiyang@hotmail.com> said:

dai> Hi : I have build a 2.5.39 kernel under redhat 7.2 use "make
dai> vmlinux" , the output file vmlinux is 55M! and seems cannot be
dai> loaded by elilo . Per my check the original kernel file
dai> default installed on the system is only 1M , I think it should
dai> been compressed . Anybody can provide me the right step to
dai> build a bootable kernel under ia64 ?

make compressed

will build you a stripped & compressed kernel in vmlinux.gz.

--david