What is the name of the UNIX Kernel file loaded into memory?

thatgentleman · 03-23-2002, 01:09 AM

What is the name of the UNIX Kernel file loaded into memory? It resides on the boot drive...

Is it just "unix", "config", or what?

trickykid · 03-23-2002, 01:39 AM

usually the kernel is named vmlinuz in linux..
the kernel actually loads into the main memory.. i don't think it runs as a process though..

might want to read about kernel, try looking it up on google.com

-trickykid

Thymox · 03-24-2002, 10:49 AM

Does anyone know why it's called vmlinu[b]z[/i]? I would have thought that ending in an X would have made more sense given the OS's name.

llama_meme · 03-24-2002, 02:41 PM

just a guess, but maybe it's the compressed ones that end in z? (almost all kernel images being compressed these days)