Re: booting uncompressed kernel on x86

[Pazzo Da Legare]

It seems there is no way to do that without a specific patch

pazzo

2008/10/2 Pazzo Da Legare <pazzodalegare@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 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
>>
>> Ondrej Zary
>>
>
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