Re: bzImage ~ 900K with i386 test11-pre2

From: Andrzej Krzysztofowicz (kufel!ankry@green.mif.pg.gda.pl)
Date: Sat Nov 11 2000 - 11:05:10 EST


> Max Inux wrote:
> > On x86 machines there is a size limitation on booting. Though I thought
> > it was 1024K as the max, 900K should be fine.
>
> No, there isn't. There used to be, but it has been fixed.
>
> -hpa

Except the simple boot loader. You cannot boot kernel >=1024KB directly
from floppy...

Andrzej
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