Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
By author: "Khimenko Victor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
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> Who's the bright idea was to extend maximum kernel beyond 1MB and STILL write
> only two bytes of sys_size in boot sector anyway ? And why it was done via
> buf in first place ?
>
Victor: this field is obsolete and should only be used by the kernel
boot sector. It's a bug in GRUB that it even looks at this field --
it should load the size of the kernel image file, period.
-hpa
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