Messages in this thread | | | From | Mikael Pettersson <> | Date | Wed, 5 Mar 2003 16:58:01 +0100 | Subject | Re: Unable to boot a raw kernel image :?? |
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H. Peter Anvin writes: > Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > > > FWIW, I still use bzdisk images frequently, and the 1MB limit really > > is a serious problem for 2.5 kernels, and 2.4 kernels build with gcc-3. > > I'm currently using a patched kernel where `make bzdisk' invokes a > > user-specified script, which in my case goes roughly like: > > > > If you get my nobootsect patch: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hpa/nobootsect-2.5.63-bk7-1.diff > > ... you will find something similar, but a bit more fleshed out. > > This is the patch I'm trying to get Linus to accept.
That's similar to what you posted to LKML a while ago, and it has the limitations of requiring mountable /dev/fd0, which needs a magic entry in /etc/fstab ("user" privs, not "owner"), and MS-DOS FS support in the kernel used for the build.
Those are the limitations I want to avoid. Do put this in a script in the kernel, but please allow the user to override it via $PATH.
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