Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Aug 1999 00:52:55 +0200 (CEST) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: Kernels > 1M |
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On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>In short, you're proposing a massive project, and hasn't come up with >any justification other than the fact that "the other guys do it", which >is no justification at all.
without mention that the guys that are using a plain ELF kernel image can't do a `cp /vmlinuz /dev/fd0` and boot from floopy without using a boot loader as we can instead do 8). Being able to boot a machine with only a kernel-image is more robust IMO.
Andrea
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