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How do I uncompress vmlinuz to vmlinux?

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Mar 15, 202661064 views
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Problem

I have already tried uncompress, gzip, and all other solutions that come up as google results and these have not worked for me. To get just the image search for the GZ signature - . so the image begins at . Then just copy the image from the point and decompress it - Got these instructions verbatim …

Error Output

> od -A d -t x1 vmlinuz | grep '1f 8b 08 00'
0024576 24 26 27 00 ae 21 16 00 1f 8b 08 00 7f 2f 6b 45

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The kernel sources now contain a script for this, . You don't need to roll your own. See this SO answer.

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