Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Mar 2000 03:33:19 +0100 | From | almesber@lrc ... | Subject | Re: bzImage limitation question |
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I wrote: > BTW, I wouldn't be at all surprised if all that removing the 1 MB check > would break is the floppy boot sector.
Update: just built a nice little kernel with about every driver that I could get to compile (about twenty if them refused, not good :-( ), which resulted in a bzImage of ~4 MB, a plain binary of ~9.8 MB, and a vmlinux of ~11.6 MB.
Tried to load it with LILO: loads, uncompressed, says it's booting, and dies (system reboots after about one second of inactivity). Tried bootimg on bzImage, vmlinux, and plain binary, and got about the same symptoms in all three cases.
So yes, something is wrong. It could of course be that the kernel dies an early death because of some internal conflicts which aren't related to size. Investigating ...
- Werner
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