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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: robert w hall <bobh@n-cantrell.demon.co.uk>,
	Thomas Molina <tmolina@cox.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: loadlin with 2.5.?? kernels
Date: 25 Oct 2002 23:20:41 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m13cqtn5cm.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20021026064044.00b9a310@pop.gmx.net>

Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> writes:

> At 11:00 PM 10/25/2002 +0100, robert w hall wrote:
> 
> >Hans Lermen changed the gdt structure in version 1.6b to enable it to
> >boot a win4lin-enabled kernel - he also changed things recently (1.6c)
> >to boot kernels of between 0.5 &1.5Mb compressed.
> 
> (1.5MB?  I remember hitting the 1MB wall even after grabbing 1.6c.  hmm..)
> 
> I went back and double-checked my loadlin version, and it turned out I was
> actually using 1.6a due to a fat finger.  Version 1.6c booted fine (only one
> kernel tested) without Eric's help.  1.6a definitely needs Eric's help to boot.

Darn.  I guess the arguments for my patch may not be quite as good,
but I still think it may be worth while.
 
> (gee, it works.  sure hope I don't hit the new lard limit any time soon;)

I wonder what the change in 1.6b was....

Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-26  5:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-20 12:51 loadlin with 2.5.?? kernels Mike Galbraith
2002-10-20 13:17 ` Thomas Molina
2002-10-20 17:34   ` Mike Galbraith
2002-10-20 18:58     ` Thomas Molina
2002-10-21 11:28       ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-10-21 17:36       ` Mike Galbraith
2002-10-24  8:07         ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-10-24  8:26           ` Mike Galbraith
2002-10-25 12:21             ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-10-25 13:30               ` Mike Galbraith
2002-10-25 22:00               ` robert w hall
2002-10-26  4:56                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-10-26  5:02                 ` Mike Galbraith
2002-10-26  5:20                   ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2002-10-26  5:49                     ` Mike Galbraith
2002-10-26  6:32                       ` Rene Blokland
2002-10-26  7:34                         ` Mike Galbraith
2002-10-26  9:24                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-10-26 10:37                         ` robert w hall
2002-10-30  1:29                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-10-31 21:24                             ` robert w hall
2002-10-26  8:22                     ` robert w hall
     [not found] <1a9.a96af34.2ae43a18@aol.com>
2002-10-20 17:40 ` Mike Galbraith
     [not found] <002f01c27c2a$d4c758a0$6400a8c0@mikeg>
2002-10-25 18:42 ` Mike Galbraith

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