[Gllug] error kernel compile

[Dylan]

On Tuesday 02 December 2003 13:44 pm, itsbruce at uklinux.net wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 10:34:50AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > > Good grief...
> > > What howto was Hari reading to use zImage anyway?!
> > > That's not been recommended since before 2.0.x kernels, has it?
> >
> > Which begs the question, why is it still present in the Makefiles ?
>
> Two part answer:
>
> 1.  zImages load into low memory (the first 640k) while bzImages load
> into high memory (above the 1M point). 

This being the case, what does the first 640K get used for other than 
the BIOS and irq stuff in the first 1K?

> Some older PCs will only boot
> a zImage

Ah, that may explain why a 486 I've tried to set up didn't want to play 
ball...

> and there may be some arcane reasone why you might use it on
> a more recent model.

Like?

Dylan
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