On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > BTW, is there no `decompressing kernel image' output on PowerMac? It's > possible that it's not visible on PowerMacs with inferior OF and only > serial OF support. And how large is your boot image? Is it smaller > than `vmlinux'?
PowerMac users typically use vmlinux as the boot image. Ethan is correct that PowerPC Macs and clones generally use uncompressed kernels.