Re: [ipxe-devel] gunzip downloaded image?

2018-07-11 Thread Jarrod Johnson
Thanks. Sorry for forking the thread, just wanted to put up why this weird ask would be there. Practically speaking, it's not enough to worry about yet, just wondering if there happened to already be an answer for this. On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 3:47 PM Geert Stappers wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10,

Re: [ipxe-devel] gunzip downloaded image?

2018-07-10 Thread Geert Stappers
On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 03:29:12PM -0400, Jarrod Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 4:15 PM Geert Stappers wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 04:01:44PM -0400, Jarrod Johnson wrote: > > > So grub can boot a gzipped kernel, I was wondering if there's a syntax > > > I'm missing to acheive the

Re: [ipxe-devel] gunzip downloaded image?

2018-07-10 Thread Jarrod Johnson
At least in the ARM64 distribution that I was dealing with, the kernel is gzipped. So doing an exec of an ARM64 as an EFI stub didn't work unless I gunzipped the kernel ahead of time. Contrast with x86_64, where the compressed kernel has EFI stub intact. I'm presuming grub transparently gunzips

Re: [ipxe-devel] gunzip downloaded image?

2018-06-18 Thread Michael Brown
On 18/06/18 21:01, Jarrod Johnson wrote: So grub can boot a gzipped kernel, I was wondering if there's a syntax I'm missing to acheive the same end in ipxe? There's no support for gunzipping a downloaded image, sorry. We do have code for the underlying decompression algorithm (used in e.g.

Re: [ipxe-devel] gunzip downloaded image?

2018-06-18 Thread Geert Stappers
On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 04:01:44PM -0400, Jarrod Johnson wrote: > So grub can boot a gzipped kernel, I was wondering if there's a syntax I'm > missing to acheive the same end in ipxe? Please elaborate what you want to achieve. Groeten Geert Stappers -- Leven en laten leven