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Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 19:03:25 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com>
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Subject: Re: bzImage ~ 900K with i386 test11-pre2
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Max Inux wrote:
> 
> On 10 Nov 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >Different compile options?
> >
> >Why is a 900K kernel unusable?
> >
> >       -hpa
> 
> My guess would be it not actually bzipping the kernel.  Id run make
> bzImage again and making sure  it is bzipping it.
> 

gzip, actually.  I can verify here "make bzImage" does the expected thing
and it looks normal-sized to me.

> 
> On x86 machines there is a size limitation on booting.  Though I thought
> it was 1024K as the max, 900K should be fine.
> 

No, there isn't.  There used to be, but it has been fixed.

	-hpa

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