Re: [SLUG] The origins of vmlinuz and mgetty

[Ken Yap]

>Yes, but the part of LILO that is running when the kernel is initially
>loaded into memory is only 16-bit, and it runs in Real-Mode (so it can use
>BIOS io routines), hence you live within a 20-bit address space, and you can
>only access the first 1MB of RAM.  This has since been addressed with
>changes to LILO and the addition of bzImage (big zimage) support.

It's not true that 16-bit code cannot load memory beyond 1 MB. It can,
using BIOS calls intended for exactly that. In any case there is no
"extended memory manager", either in LILO, or in the kernel.


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