Building Kernel
- vmlinux
- a statically linked executable file that contains the Linux kernel in one of the executable file formats
- /boot
- a partition at the beginning of drives specifically for storing bootloader and kernel related files
- System.map
- symbols copied from vmlinux
- vmlinuz or zImage
- bzImage(big zImage) = bootsect.o + setup.o + misc.o + piggy.o
- piggy.o contains the gzipped vmlinux file in its data section
- 2.4
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