Re: Kernels > 1M

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Mon, 23 Aug 1999 00:52:55 +0200 (CEST)


On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

>In short, you're proposing a massive project, and hasn't come up with
>any justification other than the fact that "the other guys do it", which
>is no justification at all.

without mention that the guys that are using a plain ELF kernel image
can't do a `cp /vmlinuz /dev/fd0` and boot from floopy without using a
boot loader as we can instead do 8). Being able to boot a machine with
only a kernel-image is more robust IMO.

Andrea

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