[syslinux] Re: pxelinux kernel fails vaio c1mzx
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Tue Dec 10 17:17:55 PST 2002
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> writes:
>
>
>>No, no, and no :(
>>
>>You're absolutely right it's a mistake. Unfortunately it was Micro$oft
>>that made it, not I. The use of the .bin extension is unfortunately
>>necessary for NTLDR compatibility :( :( :(
>
>
> Hm. Is there a size limitation on CD boot sectors? Maybe you could
> bomb out with a helpful error message if the .bin file is larger than
> 32K or whatever...
>
I could, but it would mean special-casing something that is currently a
more generic feature: .0, .bs and .bin are now doing exactly the same
thing, which is to load a file of arbitrary length at 0:7C00 and jump to
it as if the boot loader itself was invoked. The file is limited only
by low memory.
-hpa
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