Re: Building my kernel

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> I'm probably being overly picky (and perhaps even plain wrong) but I was
> under the impression that bzImage actually still use gzip and not bzip2.
> bzImage seems to mean something along the lines of big-zipped-image.

Grant, you're right and I was wrong! From the Kernel-HOWTO:
"Both zImage and bzImage are compressed with gzip. The kernel includes a
mini-gunzip to uncompress the kernel and boot into it. The difference is
that the old zImage uncompresses the kernel into low memory (the first
640k), and bzImage uncompresses the kernel into high memory (over 1M).

The vmlinux is the uncompressed built kernel, vmlinuz is the compressed
one, that has been made bootable. (Note both names vmlinux and vmlinuz
look same except for last letter z). Generally, you don't need to worry
about vmlinux, it is just an intermediate step. "

I think this means that Milo should be able to load a bzImage.

Marnix.


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