Thank you Dhaval. Seems to be very good explanation of boot process and architecture. I will look in to it.
Sri On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 2:33 AM, Dhaval Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The attatched document will be helpful to understand linux boot > process and clear your doubts... > > Thanks, > Dhaval > > On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Sri Ram K Vemulpali > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > > > >
