Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750981AbWIXOef (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Sep 2006 10:34:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751086AbWIXOef (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Sep 2006 10:34:35 -0400 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.187]:12911 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750981AbWIXOef (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Sep 2006 10:34:35 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=googlemail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=cPGV2HFv4yTW8LQ0Ul5qL1WQqwbtgwvfh0kbV2ZZ99M0mp4xe4FWImXAeh/bIrEwZNzgzA8yJS7nDxKCnVCZTG2nZct9YAiEiNXmpyES68Eu0b719U6hv9aJ/rbfLJFJTMfwfJvpZAkiHl8fRYQuQpKCmAmogKwkBpZGniCA8hM= From: Denis Vlasenko To: James Cloos Subject: Re: bzImage too big to boot??? Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 16:33:14 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200609241633.14250.vda.linux@googlemail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 830 Lines: 21 On Sunday 24 September 2006 13:29, James Cloos wrote: > I don't know whether this is a build-time issue or a grub issue, but > I've found that on my (pent-3m) laptop I cannot boot any kernel that > is larger than about 2500 K. (2504K boots, 2552K fails.) > > Past that threshold grub complains: ERR_BAD_FILETYPE. > > A 2504 K bzImage translates to a 6128 K vmlinux, 2552 K to 6252 K. > > Should bzImages that large be bootable on x86? Yes. I can boot 3MB bzImage with lilo and with linld, although lilo seems to have some trouble with initrd with kernel images that large. -- vda - 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/