Hi... On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:32, Vikram Narayanan <vikram186@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I think you got it wrong. I will try to put my question more elaborately. > 1) The system is on and BIOS code runs. It gives the control to the > boot loader, say GRUB. > 2) Grub picks up the kernel from the specific partition. (i.e a > vmlinuz image), which denotes that it is compressed. > 3) There are uncompression routines in the kernel itself, If I am not > wrong. So the kernel uncompresses itself. > 4) Now the uncompressed thing is the vmlinux image, right? nope... it's a binary....but not ELF...and that's not even named vmlinux or similar to vmlinux... > 5) The vmlinux is in ELF format. Correct? yes.... but see above... -- regards, Mulyadi Santosa Freelance Linux trainer and consultant blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
