Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 21 Jan 2003 23:24:38 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Killing off the boot sector (was: [STATUS 2.5] January 8, 2002) |
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Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > While I have no particular affection for the in-kernel boot loader, > I do care about being able to test new kernels with 'make bzdisk' > as a regular user, using raw (no file system) floppies. > > Last time I checked, LILO required both a file system and root privs > (for FIBMAP). Would syslinux work better? >
SYSLINUX will work if (a) you have write permission to the device and (b) the device is included in /etc/fstab with "user" permissions.
-hpa
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