uncompress vmlinuz to vmlinux

[tweetyhack]

So, I need help converting the compressed vmlinuz to uncompressed vmlinux. What I read somewhere was to find an the offset and uncompress that. http://superuser.com/questions/298826/how-do-i-uncompress-vmlinuz-to-vmlinux. I was able to find the offset but zcat fails with "invalid magic". Can anybody help?

[gerald_clark]

Why?

[Rich]

Hi tweetyhack
Not sure why you would want to do this, but for what it's worth, I took a quick look through the vmlinuz
file. There are some error messages at the end including one that reads  "Not a gzip file", so the
file was probably compressed into a  gzip  format.

[tweetyhack]

Why? Because I am playing with coLinux and apparently, it doesn't know how to work with compressed vmlinux. Thanks for trying Rich. Maybe I'll recompile the kernel and not compress it.

[gerald_clark]

CoLinux requires a special kernel.