From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:09:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:09:02 -0400 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:46084 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:08:51 -0400 Message-ID: <3BA1124B.5020302@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 13:08:43 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Zytor Communications User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3+) Gecko/20010905 X-Accept-Language: en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pavel Machek CC: Edgar Toernig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vojtech@ucw.cz, Hamera Erik Subject: Re: Booting linux using Novell NetWare Remote Program Loader 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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