kernel presentation at ILUG on Sat.

[James Colannino]

> It depends on what make target you specified when you built your 
> kernel. I always use "make dep && make clean bzImage modules 
> modules_install". This creates a bzip2'd kernel. IIRC, the grub/lilo 
> boot loader does the uncompressing so if you use bzip2, you need a 
> boot loader that supports it. 

Oh ok.  That clears up a lot.  I was under the impression that it was 
the kernel itself that was doing the uncompressing.  So how exactly is 
the kernel itself (uncompressed) constructed?  I assume many different C 
programs are being mashed together into one giant binary, or is the 
image comprised of many binary files which are simply read into memory 
consecutively to form one large runtime monolithic kernel?

James