Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 16:49:31 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of kzip Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990520164753.26546Y-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <35999.927226728@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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On Thu, 20 May 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > Hi folks, > > What is the status of kzip in CURRENT? Does it work on ELF kernels? I > get the following when I run it on by debug kernel (stripped or not): > > real kernel start address will be: 0x1 > real kernel end address will be: 0x65aac68a > kzip: bad magic in file kernel, probably not a kernel > kzip: extract returned 200 I haven't actually tried this yet... but... just gzip the kernel and name it "kernel.gz" i'm pretty sure the loader is smart enough that when asked for "kernel" and "kernel" doesn't exist it will try for kernel.gz and uncompress it. of course, not actually trying this, i can't say. :) -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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