On Wednesday 28 March 2007 03:21, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 12:35:18AM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > Right, a piggyback-style loader would likely fail in that case. > > Which is exactly the interesting case for x86_64. So, since Paul's > verified that grub and lilo just put them far apart, maybe bumping up > the size is the right thing to do. Or always putting the initrd at > the top of emulated RAM.
I'd prefer the latter, so that both big and small machines work. Linux still (just about) boots on 8Mb machines. Paul