Re: /boot/zImage only symbolic link (invalid)

"Justin Patrin" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.handhelds.openzaurus.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 7/28/06, niam. tni <niam.tni-gM/[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for the place where zImage is be placed.
> I've found /boot/zImage that points to /boot/zImage-2.6.16, which does
> not exist...
>
> Is there any other partition than /dev/hda1 I can look for OpenZaurus kernel?
>

You downloaded the kernel in order to flash it. Try that file. The
kernel is generally not included in the rootfs because:
1) it's not needed, it's flashed to a section of flash memory
2) it would take up space and space is at a premium on our poor zaurii

> Another question: updater.sh isn't human-readable.
> Is it compressed data? How can I make it human-readable?
>

It's a special encoded format that Sharp uses.....who knows why.
There's a utility to de-mytify it but I forget what the name is. You
can always get the plain-text version from OE (OpenEmbedded).

-- 
Justin Patrin

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