linux-kernel - Re: Initramfs from existing vmlinuz

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Date:	Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:12:26 +0000
From:	Ian Campbell <ijc@...lion.org.uk>
To:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Cc:	Martin Schlemmer <Martin.Schlemmer@....ac.za>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Initramfs from existing vmlinuz

On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 00:34 +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> You first have to extract and uncompress the ELF image from vmlinuz.
> For this, look for the gzip signature 1F 8B 08 in your vmlinuz, and
> feed all data starting from this point to zcat.

Since v2.6.26 (I think, it was v2.08 of the x86 bzImage format anyhow,
which was the same point the payload became ELF formatted) you can find
it directly using the payload_offset and payload_length fields in the
bzImage header. Attached bzexplode.c demonstrates this. e.g. "bzexplode
vmlinuz | zcat > vmlinux.elf"

Ian.

-- 
Ian Campbell
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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
		-- Aristotle

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