Subject: Re: linux-embedded: smallest kernel for 2.4.0-test9

From: Dan Malek <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 22:07:10 -0400

Brendan J Simon wrote:

> ....  I currently have the kernel down to 520K
> but would like to get it under 448K (512K minus one 64K sector for a
> bootloader).  Is this possible ???

Heh...I did this just the other day with a old -test2 kernel.

Did you remove the ELF header?

	dd if=zImage bs=64k skip=1 of=zImage.bin

The starting instruction is the first word of zImage.bin.

	-- Dan

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