Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
By author: Andrzej Krzysztofowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
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> BTW, linux-kernel readers: anybody is a volunteer for making the kernel size
> counter 32-bit here? This would enable using the simple bootloader for
> greater kernel loading... (current limit is sligtly below 1MB)
> Possibly some 16/32-bit real mode code mixing would be necessary.
>
PLEASE don't go there. bootsect.S is fundamentally broken these days
(doesn't work on USB floppies, for example.) It should be killed
DEAD, DEAD, DEAD and not dragged along like a dead albatross.
-hpa
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