Re: boot uncompressed linux image on i386 arch.

[Pazzo Da Legare]

Dear Adrian,

Here you find a description of linux boot process (for x86)

http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/kernel-boot-process

Pazzo

2008/10/9 adrian15 <address@hidden>:
> En/na Pazzo Da Legare ha escrit:
>>
>> Dear Adrian,
>>
>> but bzImage is not a gzipped kernel. Or maybe I'm wrong?
>
> I have seen the gzip command in the patch you sent to us.
>
> And whenever you load a kernel an internal gunzip process happens at Grub or
> at least that's what I think.
>
>> I know bzImage has is made by a payload (compressed) plus code to
>> uncompress it.
>
> I did not know that.
>>
>> Are you referring to other compilation result other than bzImage?
>
> No.
>
>> Just tested.
>>
>> GRUB is not happy with the kernel image format....any clue?
>
> I might be wrong after all.
>
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