Re: Kernels > 1M

Joel Klecker (jk@espy.org)
Sun, 22 Aug 1999 17:01:50 -0700

At 14:52 -0700 1999-08-22, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>Is it compatible with existing boot loaders? No? Then guess what that
>is... INCOMPATIBLE!
>
>Not to mention it would have to be made to work with initrd, etc; a new
>boot protocol needs to be created entirely. That is not inherently a
>bad idea, but incompatibility is a high price that demands a high
>payoff.

What you're missing is that this format/protocol already exists. It's
called Multiboot: <http://www.uruk.org/grub/boot-proposal.html>.
There was an old multiboot patch for Linux 1.2, which simply made
vmlinux multiboot compliant, zImage, and bzImage were left alone and
unaffected.

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Joel Klecker (aka Espy)                    Debian GNU/Linux Developer
<URL:mailto:jk@espy.org>                 <URL:mailto:espy@debian.org>
<URL:http://web.espy.org/>               <URL:http://www.debian.org/>


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