Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Oct 1999 18:53:20 +0200 (CEST) | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.3.21 Gripes. |
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On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Riley Williams wrote:
> Hi Mike. > > >>>> Have you tried make bzImage ? > > >>> That is not always enough. If the bzImage is larger than 1Mb, it > >>> still doesn't link. (But you need _a lot_ of drivers for this) > > >> I think this was a bug which is now fixed. > > > It'll link now, but this beastie.. > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1052897 Oct 14 07:10 arch/i386/boot/bzImage > > > ..still can't be booted. (not by loadlin anyway.. is there a > > protected mode bootloader for games98 anywhere?) > > I wouldn't know about loadlin as I've never used it, but I have booted > a few kernels >1M (1,048,576 bytes) in size using LILO, so have good > reason to suppose that it supports them. > > One kernel I successfully booted was a 2.2.12 kernel of about 1.3M in > size, so well over both the 1M limit and the size of your kernel above.
Hmm.. maybe with some shameless thievery.. ;-)
I'll soon need to boot large kernels, but can't risk the boot block(s) on this poor beat up old box. (no floppy, no bootable cd, yuk bios:)
Thanks for the info,
-Mike
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