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In article <mi34HD1w165w@electech.dialix.oz.au>,
owen@electech.dialix.oz.au (Owen Crocker) wrote:

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> /etc/lilo.conf has a line "image=/vmlinuz" and I guess that is what is
> currently booting, but "make vmlinuz" doesn't do me any good.
> I don't seem to have a vmlinuz.c or anything close.
> 
> Am I asking the right question ?
> 
> Regards to all....

"make zImage" is the command that produces vmlinuz, which is where you are
confused - there is no make vmlinuz command. Think of "make zImage" as
meaning "make a compressed kernel called vmlinuz and put it into root"

Yes, /vmlinuz is the kernel that is being booted - note you can actually
have several kernels to choose from at boot time... Which is handy for
those times when the wrong kernel gets compiled, or a new kernel doesn't
work. The makefile is usually set up to rename the current kernel to
something like vmlinuz-old, so it isn't clobbered by the new one.

Sorry to be so brief!

HTH, Howard Coe

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