On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, John Hodrien wrote: > On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Tom Ward wrote: > > > Remember bZimage is simply a bzip'd copy of vmlinux > > gzipped, no? > The 'b' in bzimage is for "big" - in earlier kernels there was a limit to the size of the kernel (was it 512K?), and the bzimage was the solution. It has nothing to do with bzip. Yeah it's confusing.