In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> H. Peter Anvin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: HA> Khimenko Victor wrote: >>> >> > We have noticed. You may note that kernels > 1 MB warn that they can >> > no longer be booted by the kernel boot sector. >> >> And why it was done this way, BTW ? Fix is not that hard. Perhaps they should >> say that you can not boot them with loadlin and GRUB as well ? >> HA> LOADLIN doesn't use it. Yeah. Of course. This part of loadlin's source is only my imagination: -- src/loadlin.asm -- ; -------------------------------- ; within this as loaded from "zImage" org 01F4h kernel_size dw ? ; size of kernel-part in the image-file ; (in 16 byte units, rounded up) [skipped] ; now loading the kernel mov bx,fhandle movzx ecx,kernel_size shl ecx,4 mov di,kernel_load_frame movzx edi,di shl edi,4 mov print_dots,2 call read_handle ; read the kernel call print_crlf mov print_dots,0 call print_crlf jc err_io add eax,15 and al,0f0h cmp eax,ecx jnz fileopened_wrong ; ok, all is read into memory DosCall DOS_CLOSE_FILE [skipped] -- cut --
