In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> H. Peter Anvin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
HA> Khimenko Victor wrote:
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>> > We have noticed. You may note that kernels > 1 MB warn that they can
>> > no longer be booted by the kernel boot sector.
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>> And why it was done this way, BTW ? Fix is not that hard. Perhaps the
Khimenko Victor wrote:
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> > 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
"H. Peter Anvin" wrote:
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> Khimenko Victor wrote:
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> > HA> LOADLIN doesn't use it.
> >
> > Yeah. Of course. This part of loadlin's source is only my imagination:
> >
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> Eep, I must have misunderstood Hans L.' comments on this.
>
Either way, LOADLIN too should simply load to end of file.
Khimenko Victor wrote:
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> HA> LOADLIN doesn't use it.
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> Yeah. Of course. This part of loadlin's source is only my imagination:
>
Eep, I must have misunderstood Hans L.' comments on this.
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From: "Khimenko Victor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bug in kernel - how to make big kernel bootable with GRUB (was Re:Linux
2.4.0-Test{1,2} with Grub (I think I found the answer))
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 04:22:49 +0400 (MSD)
> But even then GRUB will not use full size of this field so you ne
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Khimenko Victor wrote:
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> Huh. Patch is trivial. Really trivial. Just one problem: I do not think it'll
> be applied. Since it's TWO patches: one for kernel and one for GRUB.
Actually, the only problem with the patch is that it is not
byte-order-safe, which means that you
