Hi all,
The reason is, I tried without compressing. I made elf image and did
not execute (make bzimage) and copied all the kernel and symbols to /boot
dir and modified config file and tried to boot the kernel. I got two errors
1. insufficient memory 2. did not boot. What is the reason. thank you.
Sri
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 3:24 AM, Henrik Austad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> On Monday 06 October 2008 22:53:10 Sri Ram K Vemulpali wrote:
> > hi all,
> >
> > I have a doubt? why is that kernel has to be compress the image file
> to
> > copy to boot dir, to boot the kernel. I did not get why we do compressing
> > image file after we compile the kernel code. Any answers would be
> helpful.
> > Thank you.
>
> Most likely because decompressing an image takes less time than it would
> take
> to read the uncompressed image from disk. So, in other words, to save time.
>
> Slap me silly if I'm wrong :)
>
> > Sri
>
>
> --
> med vennlig hilsen - Yours Sincerely,
> Henrik Austad
>
