diff -urP virgin-linux/drivers/block/rd.c linux/drivers/block/rd.c
--- virgin-linux/drivers/block/rd.c	Fri Nov 17 17:46:55 2000
+++ linux/drivers/block/rd.c	Wed Nov 29 15:45:33 2000
@@ -497,7 +497,7 @@
 	/*
 	 * If it matches the gzip magic numbers, return -1
 	 */
-	if (buf[0] == 037 && ((buf[1] == 0213) || (buf[1] == 0236))) {
+	if (buf[0] == 0x1f && ((buf[1] == 0x8b) || (buf[1] == 0x9e))) {
 		printk(KERN_NOTICE
 		       "RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block %d\n",
 		       start_block);