Re: ouch

[Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>]

On Tue, Nov 18, 1997 at 05:25:00AM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote:
> It might be that it's a bzImage kernel and your machine won't boot them?
> Try building it as a zImage kernel.

According to make-kpkg(8), it builds as bzImage by default, so every
other kernel I've built recently is a bzImage. 

[12:31am] hamish@hamishpc:/boot> file vmlinuz-2.1.54
vmlinuz-2.1.54: Linux kernel bzImage data,
[12:31am] hamish@hamishpc:/boot> file vmlinuz-2.0.30
vmlinuz-2.0.30: Linux kernel bzImage data,
[12:31am] hamish@hamishpc:/boot> uname -a
Linux hamishpc 2.1.54 #1 Wed Nov 12 13:20:51 EST 1997 i586 unknown

Hmmm. Any nice way I can check the integrity of the installed image?
(eg md5sum)

I've never had Linux do this before! I haven't run 2.0.30 at all
on my machine though.


Hamish
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