Re: vmlinuz:No Multiboot Header

[Christoph Plattner]

This is a fact. The (standard) Linux kernel is not a mulitboot
specified kernel. But GRUB cannot ONLY load kernels following
the multiboot spec. GRUB also knows ELF binaries, Linux kernels
(as they are), etc...

        Christoph P.

Gregg C Levine wrote:
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> Hello from Gregg C Levine normally with Jedi Knight Computers
> I, as most of you know by now, use a certain distribution of Linux to
> build, and study GRUB. In this case it is Slackware 7.2. The machine
> is contains Grub-0.5.96.1. I have not retrieved the latest sources,
> via CVS on that setup. So when I run "mbchk" on its kernel vmlinuz, I
> get this error message, vmlinuz:No Multiboot Header. Can anyone
> explain it? In do course I shall be going through the contents of Info
> on Grub, and mbchk, but I am interested in what my fellow developers
> have to say.
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