Re: Building my kernel
Alec <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.gentoo.alpha |
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Fluff wrote:
>l�r 2005-01-08 klockan 09:47 -0500 skrev Jean-S�bastien Guay:
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>>First of all, the compiled kernel is not in the arch/alpha/boot
>>subdirectory, it's in the current directory (/usr/src/linux). Second, it
>>isn't vmlinux.gz but vmlinux .
>>
>>Should I gzip it?
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>AFAIK there shouldn't be any problem. You can do either way. The main
>reason for gzip-ing a kernel is to make it small enough to fit on a
>floppy or such medium. Today I don't see any reason to gzip it.
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>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.
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*blinks*...Grub doesn't work on alpha...does it?
>/Fluff
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Alec Warner
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