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 :-)
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Kristian Erik Hermansen
--
"It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an
intuition--and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing
gives out and then that--'Bugs'--as such little faults and
difficulties are called--show themselves and months of anxious
watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success--or
failure--is certainly reached" -- Thomas Edison in a letter to
Theodore Puskas on November 18, 1878
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