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Re: [Question] Why not load compressed kernel?


From: Robert Millan
Subject: Re: [Question] Why not load compressed kernel?
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:44:03 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 11:02:01PM +0800, y.volta wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>     I'm trying to load a .gz multi-boot kernel file. but, I get 'invalid 
> magic number'. and when i check the grub_rescue_cmd_linux (), it uses 
> grub_file_open () not grub_gzfile_open ();
> 
>     So, my question, why not use the latter one for reducing the file size?

Your question is confusing;  you say you're loading a multiboot kernel but
refer to the linux loader.  Which one do you mean?

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Robert Millan

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