On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Matt Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 :-) -- 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 --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
