From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 24 13:58:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C633037B405 for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2001 13:58:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fAOLwQ098624; Sat, 24 Nov 2001 15:58:26 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 15:58:25 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: tyler spivey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/bin/kzip nt working on 44.4-r Message-ID: <20011124215825.GA46008@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20011124213950.YEZX10558.femail21.sdc1.sfba.home.com@tspivey8> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011124213950.YEZX10558.femail21.sdc1.sfba.home.com@tspivey8> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.2i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error 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 (Nov 24), tyler spivey said: > i was going to send a pr, but decided to ask here first: > i compiled a custom kernel, uname output below, > and i wanted to test out kzip, no particular reason, just bored. > # cd > # cp /kernel . > # kzip kernel > then it said bad magic. > what's going on? > FreeBSD h24-76-54-195.vf.shawcable.net 4.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov 24 12:42:04 GMT 2001 root@h24-76-54-195.vf.shawcable.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/FAST i386 kzip only works on a.out kernels and has been obsolate for a long time. Just gzip your kernel file; /boot/loader can read gzipped kernels just fine. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message