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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


  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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