Re: Building my kernel

[snip]
> If you want to be on the sure side do both, gzip and don't. Copy both
> to /boot and make two entries in grub.conf.
>
> /Fluff

Ah, if only we had grub on the XLT! Unfortunately, we're stuck with Milo...

Milo is capable of booting gzipped kernels, but not bzip2 (bzImage) AFAIK.
Even if you're booting from HD it's useful to use a vmlinux.gz, since
loading the uncompressed kernel takes longer than loading the compressed
one and decompressing it (at least, on my machine).

If you want to experiment, you can make different entries in the Alphabios
boot manager. I always have the default entry boot my current, working
kernel, the second boots Milo only and the third is used to either boot a
different Milo from floppy, or to boot a kernel I'm experimenting with.

Marnix.


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