[TriLUG] bzImage -> vmlinux

Jason Faulkner jasonlf at gmail.com
Tue Aug 30 16:08:37 EDT 2005


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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