Re: [PATCH] Re: 2.4.5 does not link on Ruffian (alpha)

Richard Henderson
2001-05-28T01:05:56Z

On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 07:54:17PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> FWIW the documentation seems to imply that the option is necessary only
> when directly booting from SRM, i.e.. no bootloader is involved at all.

Err, well, you can't have _no_ bootloader.

> It uses the example of MILO's presence or absence as indicating the need
> for this option.

Exactly. aboot doesn't substitute.

> So... is it safe to always enable this option, with a little hacking
> perhaps? :)

Well, yes, it is obviously possible. The generic config
does what you want. You just need to permanently enable
some of that configury.

r~