Dear all.

I just compiled linux kernel 2.4.20 on slackeare 9.0.
Everything was fine except the vmlinuz size was over 2 MB.
About 1 month ago I also compiled the same source,
but the result was only 1 MB.
I realized that when I run configure the lilo.
It failed with error message "image too large".
Here is the ls l from the boot.
- vmlinuz-stock => original
- vmlinuz-old => first compilation
- vmlinuz => new compilation, the problematic one
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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jul 13 12:17 System.map -> System.map-ide-2.4.20
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 563791 Mar 18 14:03 System.map-ide-2.4.20
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Jul 13 14:39 boot.0300
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 226 Jul 13 14:39 boot_message.txt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Jul 13 12:17 config -> config-ide-2.4.20
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36222 Mar 18 14:03 config-ide-2.4.20
-rw------- 1 root root 41472 Aug 2 09:46 map
-rwxrwx--- 1 root root 2012887 Aug 6 09:18 vmlinux
-r-------- 1 root root 1170308 Jul 13 14:37 vmlinuz-stock
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1170308 Mar 18 14:03 vmlinuz-ide-2.4.20
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1174439 Jul 13 11:33 vmlinuz-old

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This is strange.
The newer vmlinuz should be smaller since I removed many things such as SCSI support, Wireless, etc.

Curious,
I reinstalled a fresh kernel source,
then copied the original /boot/config,
and did "make dep clean bzImage" again.
The result was more than 3 MB !!!

Any clue ?

Thanks.

The file you're after is
<your-kernel-source-dir>/arch/i386/boot/bzImage ...

Copy that to /boot, rename it to vmlinuz, and all is sweet ;}

Cheers,
Tink

LOL.

Yeah.
That is sweater than honey. Thanks Tinkster.

So what is <my-kernel-source-dir>/vmlinuz anyway ?

The uncompressed image, for all that
I know... but I'm not 100% sure here :)

Cheers,
Tink

I guess you were right.
I just compressed it with bz2. It shrank to 1 MB.

But of course I use the <my-kernel-source-dir>/arch/i386/boot/bzImage


I'm going to reboot now .... see ya.