> On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Pascal Schmitt wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > For a very particular thing, I need to decompress a bzImage in order to
> > get the uncompressed kernel ( I need an uncompressed kernel for a bootp
> > client on a linux bootp server, but I don't have enough place to store
> two kernels on it : compressed and uncompressed, so I will uncompress
> > its kernel).
> > I take the bzImage, remove the bootsect.s and setup.s header to get the
> > compressed kernel. but I can't unzip it because the extracted kernel
> > does not begin with gzip magic number (0x1f,0x8b|| 0x9e). But it should
> > (if I look to arch/i386/boot/compressed/misc.c and gunzip() ).
> >
> > Why ??
The zImage contain bootsect.o + setup.o + misc.o + piggy.o
piggy.o contain the gzipped vmlinux file in its data section (ELF)
(see compressed/Makefile piggy.o)
> You could always use the uncompressed image, vmlinux, which in the
> top directory after a build. Otherwise, uncompress bzImage first.
Be warn that you can't boot directly a vmlinux file, because it rely on some work made only in boot image
First there is setup.s that create some data in the zero-page (see Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt in the kernel source tree) : hard drive geometry, video mode, memory, PS/2, APM, MCA
After that it switch to protected mode, jump to 0x1000 or 0x10000 (depending on the image type)
Then compressed/head.S initialize stack, SMP , and give control to compressed/misc.c that decompress the kernel and give control to it.
PS: all source file mentionned are in arch/i386/boot
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Yann Droneaud <lch@multimania.com>
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