Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows@usa.net> wrote:
>>  zImage became obsolete in the 2.4 series.  Now you always get a bzImage,
>>  which is not bzip2, but "big zImage".  If I'm not totally on crack, the
> 
> Ah yes, thanks for the clarification...
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vmlinux#bzImage
> 
>>  compression used is gzip.  There's an x86 boot sector and some setup
>>  data before the gzipped kernel image.  HTH,
> 
> I would guess that this is not true for PPC systems :-)

Thank you all.  I should have thought of wikipedia!

Alan