Re: bzDisk compression Q; boot debug Q

2001-06-14 Thread D. Stimits
Holger Lubitz wrote: > > "D. Stimits" proclaimed: > > down to 1.44 MB. But then it would also have to be self-extracting, > > which complicates it, so I'm wondering how effective this current > > compression is, and if a more bzip2-like system would be beneficial as > > kernels get larger? > > b

Re: bzDisk compression Q; boot debug Q

2001-06-14 Thread Holger Lubitz
"D. Stimits" proclaimed: > down to 1.44 MB. But then it would also have to be self-extracting, > which complicates it, so I'm wondering how effective this current > compression is, and if a more bzip2-like system would be beneficial as > kernels get larger? bzip2 has pretty large memory requireme

Re: bzDisk compression Q; boot debug Q

2001-06-14 Thread D. Stimits
"Khachaturov, Vassilii" wrote: > > > Question 2, apparently ramdisk uses gzip compression; the name of the > > kernel from make bzImage seems to maybe refer to bzip2 compression. Is > > the kernel image using gzip or bzip2 compression for bzImage? Would > bzImage stands for "big zImage" - this is

RE: bzDisk compression Q; boot debug Q

2001-06-13 Thread Khachaturov, Vassilii
> Question 2, apparently ramdisk uses gzip compression; the name of the > kernel from make bzImage seems to maybe refer to bzip2 compression. Is > the kernel image using gzip or bzip2 compression for bzImage? Would bzImage stands for "big zImage" - this is a format invented for kernels that don't

bzDisk compression Q; boot debug Q

2001-06-13 Thread D. Stimits
First I have a question about the compression of bzDisk. While trying to debug the reason for a modular boot failure versus a successful non-module boot (XFS filesystem for root), I found that I can mount my initial ramdisk on loopback as a means of examining which modules are available to it. How