Re: booting uncompressed kernel on x86

From: Pazzo Da Legare
Date: Wed Oct 01 2008 - 18:14:35 EST


Hi Ondreh,

Thank you for your answer.

I tried your patch but on my slow i486-like target (on 2.6.25 and
2.6.27-rc6) but it reboots immediatly after few seconds; during this
time I can see some random and colored chars on the screen.

pazzo

2008/10/2 Ondrej Zary <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Wednesday 01 October 2008 23:57:43 Pazzo Da Legare wrote:
>> I would like to boot uncompressed linux kernel on a embedded x86,
>> should I apply a specific patch for this? I'm using grub boot loader
>> which should boot using elf image but I cannot find any clue.
>> Should I switch to another bootloader?
>
> I did something some time ago - but it's only a quick hack to make my really
> slow (386DX/25) machine boot faster - see http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/1/206
>
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> pazzodalegare
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