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From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
Subject: Re: bin/10529: kzip fails on ELF kernels
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The following reply was made to PR bin/10529; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To: jrowan@mandli.com
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/10529: kzip fails on ELF kernels
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 03:13:26 +0900

 Yes, kzip does not work. Try gzip, though.
 
 jrowan@mandli.com wrote:
 > 
 > >Number:         10529
 > >Category:       bin
 > >Synopsis:       kzip fails on ELF kernels
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       serious
 > >Priority:       medium
 > >Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
 > >State:          open
 > >Quarter:
 > >Keywords:
 > >Date-Required:
 > >Class:          sw-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   current-users
 > >Arrival-Date:   Wed Mar 10 09:10:01 PST 1999
 > >Closed-Date:
 > >Last-Modified:
 > >Originator:     Rowan Littell
 > >Release:        FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386
 > >Organization:
 > Mandli Communications, Inc.
 > >Environment:
 > FreeBSD beowulf.internal.mandli.com 3.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Feb 15 11:08:08 GMT 1999     jkh@usw3.freebsd.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC  i386
 > 
 > (fresh install)
 > >Description:
 > Kzip fails to recognize ELF-format kernels (including the GENERIC kernel
 > supplied on installation).  Output message from the GENERIC kernel is:
 > 
 > real kernel start address will be: 0x1
 > real kernel end   address will be: 0x65aac68a
 > kzip: bad magic in file kernel, probably not a kernel
 > kzip: extract returned 200
 > 
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > On a standard 3.1-RELEASE installation:
 > 
 > $ kzip /kernel
 > 
 > (or any other ELF-compiled kernel)
 > >Fix:
 > A workaround exists if you compile the kernel as a.out format AND you
 > copy the files kzhead.o and kztail.o from a 3.0 or earlier machine
 > (tested with 2.2.2) to /usr/lib/aout.
 > 
 > >Release-Note:
 > >Audit-Trail:
 > >Unformatted:
 > 
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 Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
 dcs@newsguy.com
 dcs@freebsd.org
 
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