Messages in this thread | | | From | Denis Vlasenko <> | Subject | Re: bzImage too big to boot??? | Date | Sun, 24 Sep 2006 16:33:14 +0200 |
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On Sunday 24 September 2006 13:29, James Cloos wrote: > I don't know whether this is a build-time issue or a grub issue, but > I've found that on my (pent-3m) laptop I cannot boot any kernel that > is larger than about 2500 K. (2504K boots, 2552K fails.) > > Past that threshold grub complains: ERR_BAD_FILETYPE. > > A 2504 K bzImage translates to a 6128 K vmlinux, 2552 K to 6252 K. > > Should bzImages that large be bootable on x86?
Yes. I can boot 3MB bzImage with lilo and with linld, although lilo seems to have some trouble with initrd with kernel images that large. -- vda - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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