Re: Gunzip problem

[Thierry Laronde]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 11:40:36PM +0900, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
> 
> > In order to avoid the decompression of the initrd, there are several
> > alternatives. But I need your advice in order to know which is best.
> 
> See the function "install_func" in the file "builtins.c", for
> instance. That's quite easy.
> 
> > b) Remove the decompression in grub_read : the question is : why do we need
> > that?
> 
> I assume that you are thinking only Linux here. Linux decompresses
> itself, so you don't understand why. Usually, an OS image doesn't
> (wouldn't) decompress itself, because that's just ugly. Clearly, that
> is not a task for an OS image.

OK (related question then is : does GRUB needs to allow direct handling of
the vmlinux, that is bzImage minus the piggy-pack sectors ;). 

If no one wants to fix this, I will look at it after the Debian Conference.

Cheers,
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Thierry LARONDE, Centre de Ressources Informatiques, Archamps - France
http://www.cri74.org/