[OpenBIOS] Exception 13 ?
Jeff Garzik
jgarzik at mandrakesoft.com
Sat Feb 12 10:31:55 CET 2000
James wrote:
>
> As I understand it, the zImage has a whole lot of junk to boot the kernel
> at the start and it is compressd, so you can't just read it and jump to
> it.
Sure you can, as long as the right boot code is attached. The final
stage of the kernel build looks something like
make vmlinux
make bootcode
gzip -9 vmlinux
cat bootcode vmlinux.gz > zImage
You can jump directly to zImage, which will trigger the uncompress code.
If you use the "make zdisk" target, Linux will boot straight from a
floppy:
dd if=zdisk of=/dev/fd0
Regards,
Jeff
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