[Ilugc] why vmlinuz ?
- From: ganesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (ganesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
- Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 18:41:27 -0400
"Ram" == Ram Prakash <RamP@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> than a 486, your kernel is always bzipped rather than gzipped
>> nowadays (and hence, make bzImage.)
Ram> I think someone in this group has specifically mentioned that
Ram> the 'bz' in 'bzImage' does *not* mean it is bzipped.
That indeed is correct. I didn't know that until I tried searching for
it and hit upon this link:
http://www.ibiblio.org/oswg/oswg-nightly/oswg/en_US.ISO_8859-1/articles/alessandro-rubini/boot/boot/zimage.html
[url maybe wrapped]
cheers,
Ganesh
Ram> Regards, Ram --
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