Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Kernels > 1M | Date | 9 Aug 1999 10:26:51 GMT |
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Followup to: <E11DmH1-00030o-00@fountain.nexus.co.uk> By author: Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > >how about dropping the boot and setup code from the kernel entirely? > > It's very useful being able to just dump a kernel straight onto a floppy and > have it boot. I'd like to see this functionality kept; I don't see that it > really hurts anything. >
Well, it does: it adds complexity in that yet another boot loader needs to be maintained for merely the occational use. Furthermore, it is a very problematic such, since figuring out the geometry of a floppy from the BIOS is impossible, and there is no installer program to tell us, we have to guess.
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