Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 15:39:39 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Rohit Panda <prohit99@yahoo.com> 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> In-Reply-To: <20020720140522.37084.qmail@web12801.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020720140522.37084.qmail@web12801.mail.yahoo.com>
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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
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