Re: loadlin with 2.5.?? kernels

Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com)
25 Oct 2002 22:56:20 -0600


robert w hall <bobh@n-cantrell.demon.co.uk> writes:

> which version of loadlin does this patch?

It doesn't it patches the kernel so that it follows the documented
kernel boot protocol.

> 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.

With the small kernel restructuring a patch is unlikely to be needed
to boot a win4lin-enabled kernel either.

> (IF I sat down for half an hour I could comment better.. but you
> probably know the answer straight-off anyway :-))

Eric
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