[syslinux] Maximum kernel size

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Aug 23 08:35:07 PDT 2006


Rory Vieira wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using Syslinux 3.11 on a 1Gb USB Stick.
> The stick has 1 partition in FAT16.
> 
> I'm experimenting with initramfs stuff, and just built a small tree
> (round 2.2M).
> I just inserted the kernel modules into that tree, and it became
> pretty large, with a resulting bzImage of 16.2Mb!!!
> 
> When I try to start that kernel, I get an error:
> Invalid or corrupt kernel image.
> 
> Any idea's on this?

This bug is fixed in the 3.20 prereleases.

	-hpa




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