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Can SYSLINUX Handle Large Kernels?

April 26, 2017Kernels large SYSLINUX

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Can SYSLINUX Handle Large Kernels?

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This version of SYSLINUX supports large kernels (bzImage format), eliminating the 500K size limit of the zImage kernel format. bzImage format kernels are detected automatically and handled transparently to the user. This version of SYSLINUX also supports a boot-time-loaded ramdisk (initrd). An initrd is loaded from a DOS file if the option “initrd=filename” (where filename is the filename of the initrd image; the file must be located in the root directory on the boot floppy) is present on the processed command line (after APPEND’s have been added, etc.). If several initrd options are present, the last one has precedence; this permits user-entered options to override a config file APPEND. Specifying “initrd=” without a filename inhibits initrd loading. The file specified by the initrd= option will typically be a gzipped filesystem image.