RE: Loading below 1 MB

[Viktor Pracht]

> > Does it mean that a Multiboot compliant OS is not allowed to 
> > require less
> > than
> > 2 MB RAM?
> > 
> > Could you please show me the part of the Multiboot standard 
> > that says the
> > kernel image *must* be loaded above 1 MB?
> 
> Or rather, does it say it *MUST* be loaded *BELOW* 1 MB?? 
> 
> Does the multiboot standard have a rule of this?

AFAIK, the only rule about it is that the kernel image gets loaded where it
wants. So, if the kernel wants to be loaded below 1 MB, the bootloader must
move itself somewhere else and/or use paging.


- VP

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