From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267000AbUBMNcl (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2004 08:32:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267001AbUBMNcl (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2004 08:32:41 -0500 Received: from mail0-96.ewetel.de ([212.6.122.96]:47247 "EHLO mail0.ewetel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267000AbUBMNcg (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2004 08:32:36 -0500 To: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: IPV4 as module? In-Reply-To: <1oEQf-2nq-7@gated-at.bofh.it> References: <1lBZb-4vn-23@gated-at.bofh.it> <1lQXH-2pY-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <1mOhm-27W-31@gated-at.bofh.it> <1n4Fj-La-15@gated-at.bofh.it> <1oEQf-2nq-7@gated-at.bofh.it> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 14:33:19 +0100 Message-Id: From: der.eremit@email.de X-CheckCompat: OK Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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