Re: [ipxe-devel] gunzip downloaded image?

2018-07-10 Thread Geert Stappers
On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 03:29:12PM -0400, Jarrod Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 4:15 PM Geert Stappers wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 04:01:44PM -0400, Jarrod Johnson wrote: > > > So grub can boot a gzipped kernel, I was wondering if there's a syntax > > > I'm missing to acheive the

Re: [ipxe-devel] gunzip downloaded image?

2018-07-10 Thread Jarrod Johnson
At least in the ARM64 distribution that I was dealing with, the kernel is gzipped. So doing an exec of an ARM64 as an EFI stub didn't work unless I gunzipped the kernel ahead of time. Contrast with x86_64, where the compressed kernel has EFI stub intact. I'm presuming grub transparently gunzips