Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 20976
bzImage created does not boot
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:29:53 EDT
Installed RH7.0 and all the Updates. I do a make mrproper; make xconfig; make dep; make bzImage; in xconfig i load the "configs/kernel-2.2.16-i686", save and exit. The kernel compiles and the bzImage is made. do a cp bzImage /dev/fd0 and boot. I see the following : ----------------------------------------------------------------- Loading............................... Uncompressing Linux... invalid compressed format (err=2) -- System halted -- -------------------------------------------------------------- I have tried all the iX86 config files all with the same result. The kernel is also to large (611k) for zImage. This worked with kernel-2.2.14-XX
you should probably not use "cp" with this. Could you try: dd if=bzImage of=/dev/fd0 instead? (and then use rdev to set your root filesystem)
I tried using the dd if=..... and the same thing. I also grabbed the 2.4.0 kernel and that builds/boots just fine. I also symlink'd /usr/include/[asm,linux] to /usr/src/linux-2.2.16/include/ [asm,linux] so that the includes are from the 2.2.16 kernel rather than the 2.4.0. But that still does not produce a bootable kernel.