Am 31.10.2013 um 06:08 schrieb Marcus Schäfer <m...@suse.de>:

> Hi,
> 
>> I am testing images built by OBS.
>> 
>> On the beagleboard xM, I cannot boot using the linux.vmx file because it is 
>> not recognized as a zImage file.
>> I get this error in u-boot: "Bad Linux ARM zImage magic!"
> 
> wait I was told by Alex that mkinitrd uses the vmlinux-*.gz variant
> of the kernel and not the zImage. Because of that information I
> intentionally changed the behavior ??
> 
> So what ?
> 
> Alex ?

To boot, we need the zImage. To resolve the kernel version number, mkinitrd 
tries to fetch it from the zImage and then if that fails, fetches it from 
vmlinux.gz.


Alex

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