RE: [iPAQ] zImage Files?

From: Hicks, Jamey <Jamey.Hicks.a.t.hp.com>
Date: Mon Jan 20 2003 - 10:40:03 EST

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Len Moskowitz [mailto:vze24hrw@verizon.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 11:12 AM
> To: ipaq@handhelds.org
> Subject: [iPAQ] zImage Files?
>
>
> Might someone explain what the zImage files (as found in the
> familar feed
> directories) are? Are they a kernel image? If I have one
> that works in my
> CF Dual Boot system, can I simply substitute another zImage
> file (say, from
> the unstable feed) to update it?

They are kernel images. They should work on dual boot systems as long as the initrd is either a cramfs image or a compressed cramfs image because ext2/ext3 support is not built into the kernel image.

Jamey
Received on Mon Jan 20 15:40:05 2003

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