Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Make ipconfig.c work as a loadable module. | Date | Sat, 08 Mar 2003 22:21:13 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> said:
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> As the kernel changes there are some things that really need to remain. > You need to be able to boot from a "floppy" disk.
No...
> Yes, now-days it's > probably not a real floppy, but a BIOS module that emulates a floppy. > A lot of people don't realilize that this is how a CD/ROM is booted!
Red Hat 8.0 boots directly from the ISO filesystem, IIUC. Plus "floppy booting" mostly means using FreeDOS + syslinux, or even an ext2 floppy with lilo or grub. The "floppy booting" discussed here is doing:
dd if=bzImage of=/dev/fd0
and booting that floppy directly. I really don't remember when I did that last time, it must have been at least 5 years ago.
Embedded systems I've seen do strange shenanigans with custom bootloaders to get the kernel into RAM, no floppy involved. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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