Comment Re:make what? (Score 1) 25
> Your boot image may be too large. This is why we > now have the option to build a (smaller) > bzip-compressed image, instead of a > gzip-compressed image. make bzImage doesn't make a bzipped kernel image. the 'b' stands for 'big'. from Documentation/kbuild/commands.txt in the 2.2 source tree:
- Note: the difference between 'zImage' files and 'bzImage' files is that 'bzImage' uses a different layout and a different loading algorithm, and thus has a larger capacity. Both files use gzip compression. The 'bz' in 'bzImage' stands for 'big zImage', not for 'bzip'!