Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 10:37:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 10:37:47 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([63.209.29.3]:57804 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 10:37:31 -0500 Message-ID: <3E661C1D.904@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 07:47:41 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030211 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mikael Pettersson CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Unable to boot a raw kernel image :?? References: <20021129132126.GA102@DervishD> <3DF08DD0.BA70DA62@gmx.de> <15974.6329.574794.597753@gargle.gargle.HOWL> In-Reply-To: <15974.6329.574794.597753@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 791 Lines: 24 Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > FWIW, I still use bzdisk images frequently, and the 1MB limit really > is a serious problem for 2.5 kernels, and 2.4 kernels build with gcc-3. > I'm currently using a patched kernel where `make bzdisk' invokes a > user-specified script, which in my case goes roughly like: > If you get my nobootsect patch: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hpa/nobootsect-2.5.63-bk7-1.diff ... you will find something similar, but a bit more fleshed out. This is the patch I'm trying to get Linus to accept. -hpa - 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/