Messages in this thread | | | From | Andrzej Krzysztofowicz <kufel!> | Subject | Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel.. | Date | Tue, 2 Jan 2001 22:44:27 +0100 (CET) |
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> > On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Ok. I didn't make 2.4.0 in 2000. Tough. I tried, but we had some > > last-minute stuff that needed fixing (ie the dirty page lists etc), and > > the best I can do is make a prerelease. > > I just compiled that one into a 1032 kB kernel, and it failed to be > booted from GRUB 0.5.95 (some CVS version). I then made USB into > modules, the kernel was 887 kB and booted. Is Linux 2.4 supposed to > suffer from the 1 M limit still?
No. $ ls -l /boot/bzImage -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1060541 Jan 2 22:18 /boot/bzImage $ lilo -v LILO version 20, Copyright 1992-1997 Werner Almesberger
$ uname -a Linux kufel 2.4.0-prerelease #3 wto sty 2 21:33:36 CET 2001 i586 unknown
Maybe GRUB relies on the data (image size) in a build-in simple bootloader ?
Current i386 image size limit is about 2.5 MB
Andrzej
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