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Mikael Pettersson wrote:
>  > 
>  > This is the patch I'm trying to get Linus to accept.
> 
> That's similar to what you posted to LKML a while ago, and
> it has the limitations of requiring mountable /dev/fd0, which
> needs a magic entry in /etc/fstab ("user" privs, not "owner"),
> and MS-DOS FS support in the kernel used for the build.
> 

No, it doesn't (if you have SYSLINUX 2.02 or higher.)

	-hpa