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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: syslinux and 2.4.0 initrd size problems
Date: 26 Nov 2000 20:22:54 -0800
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Followup to:  <20001126211642.A2763@vger.timpanogas.org>
By author:    "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> I am having trouble getting a 2.4 vmlinuz (bzImage) and initrd 
> image onto a 1.44 floppy with all the new stuff.  Even a stipped 
> down kernel compiled under 2.4 is @ 600K compressed, and I need 
> about 800K for the initrd image.  I noticed that syslinux 
> has some comments about not allowing initrd to span media.  
> 
> I there something more current that does or will allow me to
> load the inittrd off a CD-ROM device (with vmlinuz and syslinux
> on the floppy).   I know how to do this with GRUB (Grand 
> Unified Boot Loader), but I want to use syslinux if possible. 
> 

Why are you posting this to the kernel list?  See the SYSLINUX
documentation for the SYSLINUX mailing list address.

	-hpa
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