Re: [suse-sparc] Kernel Compile

From: dan carter (dcarter@waitaki.otago.ac.nz)
Date: Tue Mar 05 2002 - 18:35:37 PST

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Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 15:35:37 +1300
From: dan carter <dcarter@waitaki.otago.ac.nz>
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Kernel Compile

    /boot/vmlinuz is usually a gziped copy of vmlinux

    John Ruff wrote:
    > Hans,
    >
    > Thanks for the reply...
    >
    > I noticed that my current installed kernel under '/boot' is "vmlinuz"
    > and you mention "vmlinux". I took the SuSE 2.4.14 kernel source and
    > used the /boot/vmlinuz.config to recompile the kernel with just one
    > change, scsi tape support built into the kernel. Now the file vmlinux
    > under /usr/src/linux is of size 3257176, while the original kernel
    > /boot/vmlinuz is of size 1256669.
    >
    > This seems alittle odd. Am I missing something? Where is the kernel
    > file located under /usr/src/linux once compiled?
    > 

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