[TriLUG] bzImage -> vmlinux

[Joseph Tate]

Nope.  There's a bit of boot loader code at the beginning of the file.
 There's probably just bzipped data at some offset point in the file,
but what that offset is, I couldn't tell you.

On 8/30/05, Jason Faulkner <jasonlf at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why can't you just toss it through bzcat? I believe bzImage is just vmlinuz
> bzipped.
> 
> On 8/30/05, Kevin Otte <nivex at nivex.net> wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone know of a way to take a zImage or bzImage file (as it ships
> > with
> > most distros) and convert it back into the vmlinux file it started off
> > life
> > as? I need the uncompressed kernel image for a project and would really
> > like to avoid recompiling a kernel if I can help it.
> >
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