Re: kernels gettin' bigger

Nick Moffitt writes:

> begin  The ASCII Floating Head of Seth David Schoen  quotation:
> > We found some individual machines that did not support it.  (I can go
> > grep in the archive, but I remember seeing one with my own eyes.)
> > 
> > Would you consider that "anecdotal" rather than "quantitative"?
> 
> 	Hmmm.  Do you know if this was a sub-pentium machine?

I remember that there was a P6 or later laptop that could not boot
ISOLINUX at all and could not boot 2.88 MB SYSLINUX machines.

Outside the US, machines with no no-emulation support are probably
much more common.

> > KNOPPIX was still using SYSLINUX when I last checked.  I think that
> > counts for a lot (KNOPPIX has higher-end hardware requirements than
> > LNX-BBC does, yet presumably still believes that there are
> > significant compatibility problems even at the higher end).  Perhaps
> > we should take a look at what Klaus is doing with modules.
> 
> 	That's a good point, and a good idea.  Could you take a look?

http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2003/debian-boot-200311/msg01649.html

"Knoppix uses in all their versions up to now a floppy emulation boot,
with a 1.44 floppy image."

The current released Knoppix is using 2.4.22.  I'm downloading the
source package to extract their kernel config.

-- 
Seth David Schoen <[email protected]> | Very frankly, I am opposed to people
     http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/   | being programmed by others.
     http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/     |     -- Fred Rogers (1928-2003),
                                       |        464 U.S. 417, 445 (1984)