From: mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com (Mulyadi Santosa)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: How vmlinux is recognized?
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 15:17:31 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTikzc8Nm0JRB49X8HcEOrpLP=GNUDQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinG_rpCahAHKXp2_HmLF3J+DJQevQ@mail.gmail.com>
Hi...
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:32, Vikram Narayanan <vikram186@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...
--
regards,
Mulyadi Santosa
Freelance Linux trainer and consultant
blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-12 8:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-11 18:06 How vmlinux is recognized? Vikram Narayanan
2011-05-11 19:17 ` Dave Hylands
2011-05-11 19:31 ` Vikram Narayanan
2011-05-11 19:45 ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-05-11 20:04 ` Vikram Narayanan
2011-05-11 20:09 ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-05-11 20:11 ` Vikram Narayanan
2011-05-11 20:21 ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-05-12 3:32 ` Vikram Narayanan
2011-05-12 4:32 ` Sudheer Divakaran
2011-05-12 6:21 ` Sudheer Divakaran
2011-05-12 7:26 ` luca ellero
2011-05-12 8:17 ` Mulyadi Santosa [this message]
2011-05-13 0:19 ` Vikram Narayanan
2011-05-13 1:42 ` Dave Hylands
2011-05-16 3:14 ` Vikram Narayanan
2011-05-16 3:44 ` Peter Teoh
2011-05-16 14:12 ` Vikram Narayanan
2011-05-12 9:31 ` अनुज
2011-05-11 20:33 ` Manohar Vanga
2011-05-12 3:34 ` Vikram Narayanan
2011-05-12 16:46 ` mindentropy
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