Hi Pavel,
From: Pavel Roskin <proski@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: GRUB doesn't handle large linux kernels
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 11:09:28 -0400 (EDT)
> The choice between self-loading "vmlinuz" and multiboot-compliant
> "vmlinux" can be different for different users.
I see, but vmlinux is not Multiboot-compliant anyway (yet). IMO,
GRUB shouldn't support proprietary kernel formats any more, because
that is far from the original goal for which Erich Boleyn headed.
> I remember me seeing a patch doing exactly that. Try search engines. The
> patch may be obsolete.
I found it. :)
http://ftp.inf.tu-dresden.de/operating_systems/mach/mach4/multiboot/linux-patch
> The Linux way is also sharing the code and staying away from bloat. But
> it's not me to decide, as I almost don't use Linux on i386 systems now.
I don't, either. I myself use sparc64-linux-gnu mainly these
days. ;)
Okuji
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