Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 24 Jan 1999 16:34:37 +0000 | From | Tom Eastep <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.0-final |
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Hi Riley,
Riley Williams wrote: > > Hi Tom. > > >> 1. If I compile a 2.2.0-pre9 kernel with "make bzImage", the > >> resulting kernel does NOT boot up on my Toshiba laptop - it > >> just reports "Out of memory, system halted". Compiling a > >> 2.0.36 kernel with "make bzImage" results in one that DOES > >> boot up, and runs quite happily... > > > Interesting - I saw this happen on my Toshiba laptop with -pre6 so > > I switched to zImage and got it working. Once I had a working > > zImage, I made a bzImage with the same .conf and that one worked. > > I'm now running -pre9 bzImage with no problems. > > Having read that last night, I went home and used "make zImage" and > "make bzImage" on the configuration that "make zImage" worked on on > the said laptop, copied them both over to the laptop, made entries in > /etc/lilo.conf for both of them, then tried them both out... > > Once again, the zImage version worked, and the bzImage version didn't, > so there's definately something here - and, since they're both built > from the same configuration file... > > Mind if I ask a couple of questions: > > 1. How much RAM do you have, Tom?
32 MB. > > 2. Is there a minimum RAM size for bzImage to work?
Don't know.
-Tom
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