How vmlinux is recognized?

[Mulyadi Santosa]

Hi...

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:32, Vikram Narayanan <vikram186 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think you got it wrong. I will try to put my question more elaborately.
> 1) The system is on and BIOS code runs. It gives the control to the
> boot loader, say GRUB.
> 2) Grub picks up the kernel from the specific partition. (i.e a
> vmlinuz image), which denotes that it is compressed.
> 3) There are uncompression routines in the kernel itself, If I am not
> wrong. So the kernel uncompresses itself.
> 4) Now the uncompressed thing is the vmlinux image, right?

nope... it's a binary....but not ELF...and that's not even named
vmlinux or similar to vmlinux...

> 5) The vmlinux is in ELF format. Correct?
yes.... but see above...


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