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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