Re: [PATCH 12/12] i386 boot: Add an ELF header to bzImage

Andrew Morton
2006-10-04T03:14:22Z

On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:25:11 -0400
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> wrote:

> Increasingly the cobbled together boot protocol that
> is bzImage does not have the flexibility to deal
> with booting in new situations.
>
> Now that we no longer support the bootsector loader
> we have 512 bytes at the very start of a bzImage that
> we can use for other things.
>
> Placing an ELF header there allows us to retain
> a single binary for all of x86 while at the same
> time describing things that bzImage does not allow
> us to describe.

Seems that the entire kernel effort is an ongoing plot to make my poor
little Vaio stop working. This patch turns it into a black-screened rock
as soon as it does grub -> linux. Stock-standard FC5 install, config at