Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Feb 2000 22:45:57 +0100 | From | almesber@lrc ... | Subject | Re: bzImage limitation question |
| |
Tigran Aivazian wrote: > I am interested in anything ranging from some hacks to raise the limit a > bit to fully-featured protected mode ELF kernel image loaders, if anyone > is working on anything like that?
Okay, now bootimg - like LOBOS - can handle huge kernels too:
ftp://icaftp.epfl.ch/pub/people/almesber/misc/bootimg-2.tar.gz
You need to generate a "plain" binary:
objdump -O binary vmlinux vmlinux.bin sync sync sync bootimg -f plain vmlinux.bin
Adding "real" ELF support shouldn't be terribly difficult for somebody who is familiar with BFD.
ObWarning: bootimg is highly experimental, so be sure you don't run it anywhere where you'd be overly sorry when losing data.
BTW, I wouldn't be at all surprised if all that removing the 1 MB check would break is the floppy boot sector.
- Werner
-- _________________________________________________________________________ / Werner Almesberger, ICA, EPFL, CH werner.almesberger@ica.epfl.ch / /_IN_N_032__Tel_+41_21_693_6621__Fax_+41_21_693_6610_____________________/
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |