Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Mar 1999 10:23:51 +0300 (EEST) | From | Jussi Hamalainen <> | Subject | Re: Advantages of zImage vs. bzImage for 2.2.x kernel? |
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On 30 Mar 1999, Christophe Broult wrote:
> I do not know why but I cannot boot with a bzImage on my computer.
LILO version too old? I have LILO version 20 and it boots bzImage nicely.
The original questions was what are the advantages of bzImage over zImage. The main advantage, I guess, is that in a bzImage the kernel is compressed with bzip, which can compress things tighter than gzip (zImage). The size of the image is limited and thus you can boot a bigger kernel using bzImage. There seem to be no speed differences, not at least any that I can notice. It takes about a second or two for the kernel to decompress on my P233MMX and after that it doesn't matter which image type you use.
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