From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 20 13:39:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D07237B400 for ; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 13:39:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D7A343E31 for ; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 13:39:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) id g6KKddZ8062914; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 15:39:39 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 15:39:39 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Rohit Panda Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what do i have to do to boot a compressed kernel Message-ID: <20020720203939.GC40625@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20020720140522.37084.qmail@web12801.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020720140522.37084.qmail@web12801.mail.yahoo.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jul 20), Rohit Panda said: > i want to boot from a compressed freebsd kernel.iam having freebsd > 4.4.heard that it supports booting from a gzip compressed kernel.how > do we do it. I believe all you have to do is gzip (or bzip2) /kernel . When the loader looks for "/kernel" and doesn't find it, it will look for /kernel.gz and /kernel.bz2 and use it instead. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message