Nope. There's a bit of boot loader code at the beginning of the file. There's probably just bzipped data at some offset point in the file, but what that offset is, I couldn't tell you.
On 8/30/05, Jason Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why can't you just toss it through bzcat? I believe bzImage is just vmlinuz > bzipped. > > On 8/30/05, Kevin Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Does anyone know of a way to take a zImage or bzImage file (as it ships > > with > > most distros) and convert it back into the vmlinux file it started off > > life > > as? I need the uncompressed kernel image for a project and would really > > like to avoid recompiling a kernel if I can help it. > > > > -- > > Kevin Otte, N8VNR > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.nivex.net/ > > > > -=- > > > > "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." > > -- George Santayana > > > > "It seems no one reads Santayana anymore." > > -- Cdr. Susan Ivanova, Babylon 5 > > > > -- > > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > > > > > > -- > Jason Faulkner > ------------------------ > OldOs.org Owner/Admin / http://oldos.org / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------------------------ > Certified INGOTS Gold Assessor Trainer / http://www.theingots.org > ------------------------ > OpenOffice.org Marketing Volunteer / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- Joseph Tate Personal e-mail: jtate AT dragonstrider DOT com Web: http://www.dragonstrider.com -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
