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From: Andrzej Krzysztofowicz <kufel!ankry@green.mif.pg.gda.pl>
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Subject: Re: bzImage ~ 900K with i386 test11-pre2
To: kufel!transmeta.com!hpa@green.mif.pg.gda.pl (H. Peter Anvin)
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:05:10 +0100 (CET)
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> 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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