Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: your mail | Date | 31 May 2001 16:04:04 -0700 |
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Followup to: <200105312037.WAA01610@kufel.dom> By author: Andrzej Krzysztofowicz <kufel!ankry@green.mif.pg.gda.pl> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > BTW, linux-kernel readers: anybody is a volunteer for making the kernel size > counter 32-bit here? This would enable using the simple bootloader for > greater kernel loading... (current limit is sligtly below 1MB) > Possibly some 16/32-bit real mode code mixing would be necessary. >
PLEASE don't go there. bootsect.S is fundamentally broken these days (doesn't work on USB floppies, for example.) It should be killed DEAD, DEAD, DEAD and not dragged along like a dead albatross.
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