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SubjectRe: 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

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