From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: John Coffman <johninsd@san.rr.com>
Cc: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@mailshack.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove lilo-loads-only-five-sectors-of-zImage-fixup from setup.S
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:04:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <452E758E.2060701@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.0.20061012095229.048db398@pop-server.san.rr.com>
John Coffman wrote:
> Alexander,
>
> You are referring to versions of LILO more than 8 years old. Since
> version 21, when I took over maintenance from Werner, LILO has been
> sensitive to the boot protocol in use. Peter has been kind enough to
> point out upgrades to the 2.00+ protocols when they have been introduced.
>
> All versions of LILO since version 21 should be able to correctly handle
> both zImage and bzImage kernels, old and new. The command: "lilo -V
> -v" should indicate the version of LILO you are using, and may indicate
> a release date.
>
We're talking old enough that it didn't support either bzImage or initrd.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-12 17:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-11 16:33 [PATCH] Remove lilo-loads-only-five-sectors-of-zImage-fixup from setup.S Alexander van Heukelum
2006-10-11 18:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-10-11 19:43 ` Alexander van Heukelum
2006-10-11 19:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-10-12 16:57 ` John Coffman
2006-10-12 17:04 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-10-12 18:15 ` Alexander van Heukelum
2006-10-12 17:43 ` looking for explanation of spontaneous reset/reboot on Opteron Edward Goggin
2006-10-12 21:06 ` Randy Dunlap
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