Re: Unable to boot a raw kernel image :??

[Mikael Pettersson]

H. Peter Anvin writes:
 > Mikael Pettersson wrote:
 > > 
 > > FWIW, I still use bzdisk images frequently, and the 1MB limit really
 > > is a serious problem for 2.5 kernels, and 2.4 kernels build with gcc-3.
 > > I'm currently using a patched kernel where `make bzdisk' invokes a
 > > user-specified script, which in my case goes roughly like:
 > > 
 > 
 > If you get my nobootsect patch:
 > 
 > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hpa/nobootsect-2.5.63-bk7-1.diff
 > 
 > ... you will find something similar, but a bit more fleshed out.
 > 
 > This is the patch I'm trying to get Linus to accept.

That's similar to what you posted to LKML a while ago, and
it has the limitations of requiring mountable /dev/fd0, which
needs a magic entry in /etc/fstab ("user" privs, not "owner"),
and MS-DOS FS support in the kernel used for the build.

Those are the limitations I want to avoid. Do put this in a script
in the kernel, but please allow the user to override it via $PATH.

/Mikael