bzImage and vmlinux files

Brett I. Holcomb bholcomb
Mon May 17 11:41:55 PDT 2004


Thank you!  

> On 12/21/02 21:16, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
>> While building kernels I notice that I end up with a bzImage and a
>> vmlinux
>> files.  The bzImage I copy to /boot as a vmlinuz-xxxxx and it is
>> specified
>> in lilo.conf.  What is the vmlinux file for?  Why is it generated.  Is it
>> the uncompressed version of bzImage?
> 
> Yup.
> 

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