Re: kernels gettin' bigger

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.)
> > 	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.

	Is it possible to use ISOLINUX with a proper el-torito boot
setup?

	I mean, we use SYSLINUX with el-torito.  Lots of people use
ISOLINUX with no-emulation.  The Web page
<http://syslinux.zytor.com/iso.php> advises no-emulation, and notes
that ISOLINUX will perform a heuristic to see if your boot volume is a
1.2, 1.4, 2.88, or hard-drive volume.  

	Stepping back from implementation details for a moment, would
it be possible to use an additional stage bootloader in the El-Torito
image, allowing us to store a large kernel on the ISO itself?

I do agree somewhat with your observation that we should be at *least*
as conservative as knoppix.

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