From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Killing off the boot sector (was: [STATUS 2.5] January 8, 2002)
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 23:24:38 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E2E4736.8010804@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200301111603.RAA06278@harpo.it.uu.se>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-22 7:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-11 16:03 Killing off the boot sector (was: [STATUS 2.5] January 8, 2002) Mikael Pettersson
2003-01-22 7:24 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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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
2003-01-08 21:23 ` John Bradford
2003-01-09 0:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
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