V.Suresh wrote:
> My /boot dir contains a vmlinux-2.2.16  1.5 MB, and a vmlinuz-2.2.16 612 KB.
> I know vmlinuz is the kernel for booting. What is vmlinux-xxx then?
> -- 

vmlinux is uncompressed version which is useless for booting. It is installed
only by the RedHat rpm, to be used for kernel debugging I think. 


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