ROMs Little help with boot.img repack...

[exile1975]

I've been at this for days learning to unpack my boot.img,, now I'm trying to repack it and for some reason it always comes out too small, a little more than half the original. I'm using cygdrive on windows. I've got a samsung admire using the stock kernel. Judging from the size I'd say it isn't re adding the kernel but I'm not sure.. Any help is much appreciated

 

[karandpr]

unpack it again .
if you have zimage and ramdisk then it was packed properly .

Usually stock ROM are/have boot.img dumps which are larger in size .
Dont be shocked if the packed kernel comes 50 p.c of size .

 

[exile1975]

Its unpacking fine, and repacking fine, but when I mkbootfs it comes out half the size of the original. I'm using the correct page size and base. Next doing a usb linux install. F.ck windows

Edit:
Wait, are you saying to use it? That its normal?

Edit 2:
Holy crap. I was afraid to try because of the size difference, but it works. Thank you so much for taking the time to answer

 

[karandpr]

It's perfectly normal.
I have seen "10 MB" boot.img compressed to roughly 2-3 MB and they worked fine .