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Re: what is bzImage?


Tim Grossner said:
> ACtually, I would wager that its not to compress it to fit in MEMORY, but
> to fit into the boot sector...I think...:-) I may be full of it, but I
> think thats the purpose.

It's just compressed to take up a smaller footprint on disk, and to
load faster.  (Reading an compressed kernel from a floppy,
uncompressing it, and booting is much faster than reading an
uncompressed kernel.)

Steve
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