From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Edgar Toernig <froese@gmx.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vojtech@ucw.cz,
Hamera Erik <HAMERAE@cs.felk.cvut.cz>
Subject: Re: Booting linux using Novell NetWare Remote Program Loader
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 13:08:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BA1124B.5020302@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010909220921.A19145@bug.ucw.cz> <20010909170206.A3245@redhat.com> <20010909230920.A23392@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <9nh5p0$3qt$1@cesium.transmeta.com> <20010911005318.C822@bug.ucw.cz> <3BA04514.D65EDF98@gmx.de> <20010913120706.C25204@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <3BA0D2BA.8B972B51@gmx.de> <20010913215617.E6820@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <3BA10FFA.1050204@zytor.com> <20010913220326.H6820@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Pavel Machek wrote:
>>
>>Am I guessing correctly that this RPL thing is a floppy image emulator?
>>Then it probably becomes a matter of where that image lives (in memory, if
>>so where; or on the network and downloaded sector by sector.) You may
>>want to try to make a SYSLINUX image and see if it works.
>>
>
> Yep, it is floppy image emulator. People are telling me it is
> downloaded sector by sector. Do you have some "sure to boot" floppy
> image somewhere on ftp?
> Pavel
There is no such thing, but this is how you'd build a minimal SYSLINUX
floppy image (remove the -s for better performance but somewhat reduced
resistance to severe BIOS bugs):
su
dd if=/dev/zero of=floppy.img bs=1024 count=1440
mkdosfs floppy.img
syslinux -s floppy.img
mount -o loop -t msdos floppy.img /mnt
cp bzImage /mnt/linux
umount /mnt
sync
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-13 20:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-09 20:09 Booting linux using Novell NetWare Remote Program Loader Pavel Machek
2001-09-09 21:02 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-09-09 21:09 ` Pavel Machek
2001-09-10 1:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-09-10 22:53 ` Pavel Machek
2001-09-13 5:33 ` Edgar Toernig
2001-09-13 10:07 ` Pavel Machek
2001-09-13 10:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-09-13 15:37 ` Edgar Toernig
2001-09-13 19:56 ` Pavel Machek
2001-09-13 19:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-09-13 20:03 ` Pavel Machek
2001-09-13 20:08 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2001-09-13 20:50 ` Pavel Machek
2001-09-17 19:29 ` ACPI and SCSI SirVer
2001-09-09 21:10 ` Booting linux using Novell NetWare Remote Program Loader Eric Lammerts
2001-09-13 15:13 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-09-13 22:46 ` Eric Lammerts
2001-09-10 13:20 ` Ross Vandegrift
2001-09-10 14:35 ` Pavel Machek
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