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| author | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2006-05-03 18:05:05 -0700 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2006-05-03 18:05:05 -0700 |
| commit | 880b761e9720e8696acdfb88d0c011d92c4756fe (patch) | |
| tree | cb4bb51fd81db09d468deaf1b7174c3082c21a4d | |
| parent | 28eecd8965aedbd75727fb0797a2e7033d5c54ee (diff) | |
| download | syslinux-880b761e9720e8696acdfb88d0c011d92c4756fe.tar.gz | |
Remove check that a kernel can only be 8 MB or smaller.
| -rw-r--r-- | runkernel.inc | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/runkernel.inc b/runkernel.inc index fcffd44e..7627449e 100644 --- a/runkernel.inc +++ b/runkernel.inc @@ -35,16 +35,17 @@ ; kernel code. The boot sector is never executed when using an external ; booting utility, but it contains some status bytes that are necessary. ; -; First check that our kernel is at least 1K and less than 8M (if it is -; more than 8M, we need to change the logic for loading it anyway...) +; First check that our kernel is at least 1K, or else it isn't long +; enough to have the appropriate headers. ; ; We used to require the kernel to be 64K or larger, but it has gotten ; popular to use the Linux kernel format for other things, which may ; not be so large. ; +; Additionally, we used to have a test for 8 MB or smaller. Equally +; obsolete. +; is_linux_kernel: - cmp dx,80h ; 8 megs - ja kernel_corrupt and dx,dx jnz kernel_sane cmp ax,1024 ; Bootsect + 1 setup sect |