[CLUE-Tech] RE: monolithinc Kernel

[Jed S. Baer]

On Tue, 5 Mar 2002 11:48:09 -0700
Matt Gushee <mgushee at havenrock.com> wrote:

> If I'm not mistaken (i.e., I've definitely read this somewhere,
> but I don't recall all the details), bzImage stands for "big
> zImage," not for "bzip-compressed image." I'm not sure how it's
> compressed.

http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/kernel.html

< quoth >
([footnote] Note: the difference between 'zImage' files and 'bzImage'
files is that 'bzImage' uses a different layout and a different loading
algorithm, and thus has a larger capacity. Both files use gzip
compression. The 'bz' in 'bzImage' stands for 'big zImage', not for
'bzip'!)
< unquoth >

I also note, looking at /sbin/installkernel that it does:
  cat $BOOTIMAGE > $INSTALL_PATH/vmlinuz-$KERNEL_VERSION

On my box, I make bzImage, and thats what I get:
  /usr/src/linux-2.4.2/arch/i386/boot/bzImage

ergo, make bzImage; make install copies bzImage to vmlinuz-version (then
creates a symbolic link to it from vmlinuz).
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