From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 02:15:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 02:15:59 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([63.209.29.3]:51918 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 02:15:58 -0500 Message-ID: <3E2E4736.8010804@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 23:24:38 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021119 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mikael Pettersson CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Killing off the boot sector (was: [STATUS 2.5] January 8, 2002) References: <200301111603.RAA06278@harpo.it.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <200301111603.RAA06278@harpo.it.uu.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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