From: der.eremit@email.de
To: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IPV4 as module?
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 14:33:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1ArdRX-00005H-Tf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1oEQf-2nq-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 07:20:07 +0100, you wrote in linux.kernel:
>> That's not all correct. You can fit 700 MB data on a CD-ROM, but booting
>> is still emulated from a 1.44 MB floppy (or some other floppy/HDD
>> images, but many BIOSses won't accept those (or handle them correctly)).
> Baloney. Most BIOSes support "no emulation" booting these days; in fact,
> there are more that don't do floppy emulation correctly than the few very
> old BIOSes which didn't do no emulation.
Even if wanting to support BIOSes that don't do "no emulation", all it
takes is simple initrd to locate and mount the iso9660 filesystem off the
real device - and that easily fits on a 2.88 MB floppy image used for
emulated floppy boot. Should also fit on an 1.44 MB image, although I've
not seen a BIOS yet that didn't like a 2.88 MB image on a CD.
--
Ciao,
Pascal
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2004-02-13 13:33 ` der.eremit [this message]
2004-02-16 6:49 ` IPV4 as module? Tomasz Kłoczko
2004-02-04 20:06 Andrey Borzenkov
2004-02-05 12:29 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-02-08 2:14 ` Tomasz Kłoczko
2004-02-08 21:27 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-02-09 3:21 ` Tomasz Kłoczko
2004-02-13 6:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
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