[syslinux] Difference between linux.c32 and loading linux directly?
Gene Cumm
gene.cumm at gmail.com
Tue Aug 24 04:11:27 PDT 2010
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 02:56, Michael Tokarev <mjt at tls.msk.ru> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> What's the difference between linux.c32 module and
> loading linux kernel directly by {sys,pxe,iso}linux?
>
> Is there any advantage of using linux.c32 over the
> built-in method?
At this time, linux.c32 can deal with memory holes better. I have a
machine that with a 40+ MiB initramfs file, I have to use linux.c32.
There may be other differences that I'm not aware of.
--
-Gene
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