Re: Kernels > 1M

Werner Almesberger (almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch)
Mon, 9 Aug 1999 16:47:56 +0200 (MET DST)

Riley Williams wrote:
> I'm actually working on a variant of this, that effectively replaces
> the current 16-bit syssize field with a 32-bit one,

Overkill ;-) If your kernel image is really larger than 32 MB
compressed, you'll probably want to use a "real" boot loader anyway.
If you can sequeeze a version counting in sectors in 16 bits into
bootsect.S, I'd suggest to take that route, because it should take
much less time to implement ...

- Werner

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