Re: Unable to boot 2.4.0-test12 (0224 AX:0212 BX:BC00 CX:5101 DX:000.)

From: Peter Samuelson (peter@cadcamlab.org)
Date: Sat Dec 16 2000 - 18:25:18 EST


[infernix]
> I found the cause. I read somewhere in a debian bugreport that
> bootsect.S can't handle really big (b)vmlinuz images (over 500kb
> orso). However, I am wondering why 'make bzdisk' doesn't give me an
> error or a warning.

As someone (Jeff Garzik?) was saying a week or two ago, can we please
kill the x86 boot sector already? With today's kernels, 'over 500k or
so' is probably the common case. Is there *anything* the builtin code
can do better than syslinux?

Peter
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