vmlinuz

[Richard Vickery]

Fwiw, you ought to be placing your comments here in the thread "boot, linux
text" as this is where Dave's comments are.
On Aug 6, 2012 6:25 AM, "Ed Greshko" <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:

> On 08/06/2012 07:43 PM, Tim wrote:
> > On Sun, 2012-08-05 at 22:37 -0700, Richard Vickery wrote:
> >> is it possible to use an image from another user
> > Maybe...
> >
> > If I recall correctly, it's custom-built for your computer's hardware
> > when the kernel is installed, including the things you need for your PC
> > to boot.  It mightn't have what someone else needs to boot up, or may
> > boot up but be lacking something important (such as no working network
> > hardware, or drivers for all your disc drives, et cetera).
> >
>
> FWIW, I'd not give vmlinuz much thought....
>
> So, I downloaded the kernel-3.5.0-2.fc17.x86_64.rpm and extracted its
> vmlinuz-3.5.0-2.fc17.x86_64 and did a diff of what is on my system and what
> is on a VM.  They are all identical.
>
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