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From: mindentropy@gmail.com (mindentropy)
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 22:16:19 +0530
Subject: How vmlinux is recognized?
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> This way, GRUB doesn't need to know how to decode ELF
> files and the job is left to the kernel code. 

GRUB has a elf decoder, but it should have multiboot header.
http://osdev.berlios.de/grub.html#multiboot

Hope this answers your doubt.