Re: The lilo problem
On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 11:41:31AM -0400, Mike Bilow wrote:
> THIS IS NOT A LILO PROBLEM. There is no benefit to making zImage instead
> of bzImage kernels on the i386 architecture. I concede that there are
> backward compatibility issues with older kernels, but there are ways of
> fixing this which are under consideration. Lilo has to make choices
> between limits imposed by the ROM BIOS, and there are trade-offs.
> However, you lose absolutely nothing on i386 by always making bzImage
> kernels instead of zImage.
I lose the ability to boot one system with bzImage kernels. I consider
that to be slightly more than nothing.
We need those fixes at the same time as the new LILO, not some time later.
We can't just strange zImage-using users in the interim.
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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