From: DervishD <raul@pleyades.net>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Killing off the boot sector (was: [STATUS 2.5] January 8, 2002)
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 21:35:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030108203548.GA6537@DervishD> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <avi06f$89g$1@cesium.transmeta.com>
Hi HPA :))
> Can we *please* kill off the stupid in-kernel boot sector?
Yespleaseyespleaseyesplease... I posted a message here a long
time ago because I couldn't boot a raw kernel image with 2.4.x. Well,
it didn't work even with a emulated floppy image (El Torito, you
know)...
I think that, with those good boot loaders out there, this piece
of code, that is architecture dependend, should be off-the kernel.
IMHO, those saved bytes should be used to store another cool Tux
image or something like that XDDDDD
> People keep asking what's the harm in keeping it, and the answer is,
> quite simply: "because people continue to try to use it."
Exact...
You've got a very good and sensible idea ;)
Raúl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-08 20:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-08 18:05 [STATUS 2.5] January 8, 2002 Guillaume Boissiere
2003-01-08 20:03 ` Killing off the boot sector (was: [STATUS 2.5] January 8, 2002) H. Peter Anvin
2003-01-08 20:35 ` DervishD [this message]
2003-01-08 21:23 ` John Bradford
2003-01-09 0:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2003-01-11 16:03 Mikael Pettersson
2003-01-22 7:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
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