Hello everyone,

First of all, I'm not sure if this is the right forum for the topic. If it's not I'm sorry (and I hope you can refer me to a better place). Now, for the question:

I am currently trying to run a complete debian lenny on a routerboard 450G. With some patches from the guys over at openwrt, all the 450g's hardwarefeatures are supported by the linux kernel, and the userland is not a problem. However, I ran into an issue concerning the size of the kernel when booting it from flash. I seem to be able to boot a kernel of up to approximately 3.5-4M's in size without a problem. If the kernel image is larger than that, the 450g's bootloader will either report that it cannot find the kernel, or that it doesn't have an ELF header. The same kernel works fine if one fetches it via tftp.

What limitation am I running into here? Is there a way to resolve this issue and be able to boot larger kernels?

Thank you in advance.

Greetings from the Netherlands
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Rien Broekstra