Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:04:14 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Remove lilo-loads-only-five-sectors-of-zImage-fixup from setup.S |
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John Coffman wrote: > Alexander, > > You are referring to versions of LILO more than 8 years old. Since > version 21, when I took over maintenance from Werner, LILO has been > sensitive to the boot protocol in use. Peter has been kind enough to > point out upgrades to the 2.00+ protocols when they have been introduced. > > All versions of LILO since version 21 should be able to correctly handle > both zImage and bzImage kernels, old and new. The command: "lilo -V > -v" should indicate the version of LILO you are using, and may indicate > a release date. >
We're talking old enough that it didn't support either bzImage or initrd.
-hpa
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