From: Andrzej Krzysztofowicz <kufel!ankry@green.mif.pg.gda.pl>
To: kufel!stud.uni-dortmund.de!matthias.andree@green.mif.pg.gda.pl
(Matthias Andree)
Cc: kufel!vger.kernel.org!linux-kernel@green.mif.pg.gda.pl (Kernel
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Subject: Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 22:44:27 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200101022144.WAA00639@kufel.dom> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010102191458.B4299@emma1.emma.line.org> from "Matthias Andree" at sty 02, 2001 07:14:58
>
> On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > Ok. I didn't make 2.4.0 in 2000. Tough. I tried, but we had some
> > last-minute stuff that needed fixing (ie the dirty page lists etc), and
> > the best I can do is make a prerelease.
>
> I just compiled that one into a 1032 kB kernel, and it failed to be
> booted from GRUB 0.5.95 (some CVS version). I then made USB into
> modules, the kernel was 887 kB and booted. Is Linux 2.4 supposed to
> suffer from the 1 M limit still?
No.
$ ls -l /boot/bzImage
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1060541 Jan 2 22:18 /boot/bzImage
$ lilo -v
LILO version 20, Copyright 1992-1997 Werner Almesberger
$ uname -a
Linux kufel 2.4.0-prerelease #3 wto sty 2 21:33:36 CET 2001 i586 unknown
Maybe GRUB relies on the data (image size) in a build-in simple bootloader ?
Current i386 image size limit is about 2.5 MB
Andrzej
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-31 20:24 Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel Linus Torvalds
2001-01-01 2:14 ` Adam Sampson
2001-01-01 17:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-01 19:15 ` Frank Jacobberger
2001-01-01 21:32 ` Keith Owens
2001-01-02 21:18 ` Rik Faith
2001-01-02 21:37 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-02 20:40 ` Adam Sampson
2001-01-01 19:12 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-01-02 2:51 ` Gerold Jury
2001-01-02 11:55 ` Kurt Roeckx
2001-01-02 17:25 ` David Woodhouse
2001-01-02 22:37 ` Gerold Jury
2001-01-02 22:55 ` Kai Germaschewski
2001-01-03 0:38 ` Gerold Jury
2001-01-03 16:07 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-01-03 17:50 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-01-03 22:06 ` Kai Germaschewski
2001-01-03 22:32 ` Russell King
2001-01-04 12:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-01-02 18:14 ` Matthias Andree
2001-01-02 18:32 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-01-02 21:44 ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz [this message]
2001-01-02 18:53 ` Dominik Kubla
2001-01-01 0:16 Ray Strode
2001-01-01 2:56 Ray Strode
[not found] <20010102190651.C26503@Marvin.DL8BCU.ampr.org>
2001-01-02 21:16 ` Kai Germaschewski
[not found] <3A522A57.3050307@grips.com>
2001-01-03 0:37 ` David Woodhouse
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