Re: Better patch for 2.1.106

Anthony DeStefano (destefano@usa.net)
Sun, 14 Jun 1998 16:09:16 -0400 (EDT)


On 14 Jun 1998, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Here is a "better" patch that I hope should fix the CRC problem with
> zImages in 2.1.106 (personally, I think the "right" thing is to
> deprecate zImages completely, but I'm not likely to get a whole bunch
> of votes for this.)
>
>
> The problem with 2.1.106 is that zImages (but not bzImages) do a
> strange re-relocation from 64K to 4K, and it is done *before* the test
> (so 0x7c00 is actually in use at the time of the test.)
>

So do you recomend using bzImages from now on? I've always used zImage
and I didn't know there was any difference.

What is the big difference?

-= Anthony DeStefano =-
<destefano@usa.net>

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