Re: [OpenBIOS] Exception 13 ?

[Jeff Garzik]

James wrote:
> As I understand it, the zImage has a whole lot of junk to boot the kernel
> at the start and it is compressd, so you can't just read it and jump to
> it.

Sure you can, as long as the right boot code is attached.  The final
stage of the kernel build looks something like

make vmlinux
    make bootcode
    gzip -9 vmlinux
    cat bootcode vmlinux.gz > zImage

You can jump directly to zImage, which will trigger the uncompress code.

If you use the "make zdisk" target, Linux will boot straight from a
floppy:

dd if=zdisk of=/dev/fd0

Regards,

Jeff