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

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 06:14:22PM +0200, Gwenole Beauchesne wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The following patch increases max kernel size to 8 MB when qemu is invoked 
> with -kernel and -initrd. Otherwise, x86_64 kernel panics when loading the 
> initrd (e.g. <Cooker>/x86_64/isolinux/alt0/{vmlinuz,all.rdz}).

When I talked to Fabrice about this he recommended looking at what
other loaders (lilo, grub) do to avoid overwriting the kernel.  I've
been meaning to do that for months but never got around to it.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery