Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Increase max -kernel size

[Paul Brook]

On Wednesday 28 March 2007 03:21, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 12:35:18AM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > Right, a piggyback-style loader would likely fail in that case.
>
> Which is exactly the interesting case for x86_64.  So, since Paul's
> verified that grub and lilo just put them far apart, maybe bumping up
> the size is the right thing to do.  Or always putting the initrd at
> the top of emulated RAM.

I'd prefer the latter, so that both big and small machines work. Linux still 
(just about) boots on 8Mb machines.

Paul