From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
To: Joshua <jhudson@cyberspace.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] restore floppy boot image
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 14:56:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40E30CE0.70005@didntduck.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.1040630143510.23723A-100000@grex.cyberspace.org>
Joshua wrote:
> After installing the 2.6.7 kernel a week ago, I had LILO problems
> (lilo bombed on the kernel image). My first thought was to dd the kernel
> to a floppy, and boot Windows so that I could get a new LILO (I have
> a winmodem for dialup). My second thought was better check w/ hexdump
> first.
>
> I saw that "booting from floppy is no longer supported" message, and
> thought "This won't do.
>
> Rather than go back to the old version, I thought that I could do it
> better. Maybe I did and maybe I didn't, but this time the bzImage loading
> code fits into a single sector (no more need of bootsect_kludge).
>
> Patch-signed-off-by: Joshua Hudson <jhudson@cyberspace.org>
>
Direct floppy booting was removed for good reasons: it was broken in
many setups and is easily replaced by syslinux. See make bzdisk.
--
Brian Gerst
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-30 18:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-30 18:45 [PATCH] restore floppy boot image Joshua
2004-06-30 18:56 ` Brian Gerst [this message]
2004-06-30 20:34 ` Timothy Miller
2004-06-30 21:33 ` Timothy Miller
2004-06-30 21:52 ` Joshua
2004-06-30 21:55 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-07-01 14:50 ` Timothy Miller
2004-06-30 23:17 ` Tobias Diedrich
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