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Sindi Keesan wrote:
>
> > Have you tried using bare.i from Slackware 7.1?
> 
> Why not just use zimage from BL2 instead?  

Because the BL2 kernel won't boot BL3.

> But I think you said the BL3  kernel was smaller than the 
> BL2 kernel 

The BL3 kernel is 435kb.  The BL2 kernel is 512kb.  However, 
the BL3 kernel has two capabilities lacking in the BL2 kernel.

> (which is smaller than bare.i).

The bare.i kernel in Slackware 7.1 is 735kb (bzipped).  So you 
can see that both the BL2 and BL3 kernels are *much* smaller 
than the bare.i kernel.

Cheers,
Steven