Re: zImages and such

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
13 Sep 1997 23:25:45 GMT

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>
> If zImage represents a compressed kernel image, what is bzImage? Why
> not just always use bzImage?
>

Some (now very old) bootloaders don't permit zImages to be used. I
may very well drop zImage support, at least in certain cases, in a
future version of SYSLINUX: it very much complicates certain things...

-hpa

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