Re: question on linux elf image

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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 <osbydhaval@xxxxxxxxx> 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
<vsriramksh@xxxxxxxxx> 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 <henrikau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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
>
>


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