Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > >Is there a way to get BootX to work with compressed kernels? > > > >BTW, zvmlinux is from `make zImage` and in arch/ppc/boot > > I've not looked at that bit of source for long, but it's possible that > the special miboot image works with BootX. You can also try compressing a > plain vmlinux with gzip -f9. The zImage won't work as it's embedded > decompressor will not work when called from bootx. > > ben.
Sorry, no good. It wouldn't even show on the menu. :( So, BootX doesn't "execute" the kernel, is that why the embedded decompressor doesn't work? Probably just copy the image to memory and a stack pointer? Mike
