Re: zImage on 2.6?

[Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>]

Rick Warner wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 May 2005 12:40 pm, Wakko Warner wrote:
> > Please keep me CCd

> As others have mentioned, bzImage seems to be a requirement now for x86.  
> However, zImage will not do any better for you.  I recall doing testing of 
> zImage vs bzImage a long time back, and the bzImage kernels were slightly 
> smaller than the zImage ones anyway.  I think you're going to be out of luck 
> trying to get your kernel that small.  A single floppy boot/root disk isn't 
> really possible with 2.6 kernels anymore.  Have you looked into pxe booting 
> instead?  I work at a cluster company and we do tons of pxe/network booting 
> stuff.

Not all machines are PXE capable.  The boot will be generally CDrom or USB
stick.  I wanted to continue to support our machines that are not capable of
booting from either of these (which all of these are not PXE capable)

I might beable to pull this off, I don't know yet.  If it wasn't for all the
modules I have placed in the initrd, I could.  (I could remove one of the
modules and it would fit just fine but I might actually need that module)

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