diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index daa16b4f..a5f7b813 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 User visible changes for UPX
 ==================================================================
 
+Changes in 2.90 (xx Aug 2006):
+  * vmlinuz/386: fixed zlib uncompression problem on dos
+
 Changes in 2.01 (06 Jun 2006):
   * arm/pe: better DLL support
   * dos/exe: device driver support added
diff --git a/src/p_vmlinz.cpp b/src/p_vmlinz.cpp
index 8cc27df6..337e2690 100644
--- a/src/p_vmlinz.cpp
+++ b/src/p_vmlinz.cpp
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ int PackVmlinuzI386::decompressKernel()
             fd = dup(fi->getFd());
             if (fd < 0)
                 break;
-            gzFile zf = gzdopen(fd, "r");
+            gzFile zf = gzdopen(fd, "rb");
             if (zf == NULL)
                 break;
             // estimate gzip-decompressed kernel size & alloc buffer