[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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