From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266754AbUBMGPt (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2004 01:15:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266771AbUBMGPt (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2004 01:15:49 -0500 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([63.209.29.2]:14479 "EHLO hera.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266754AbUBMGPs (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2004 01:15:48 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin) Subject: Re: IPV4 as module? Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 06:15:38 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara CA Message-ID: References: <20040204200610.GB3802@localhost.localdomain> <20040205122921.GB28571@lug-owl.de> <20040208212757.GW28571@lug-owl.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: terminus.zytor.com 1076652938 16305 63.209.29.3 (13 Feb 2004 06:15:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@terminus.zytor.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 06:15:38 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Followup to: <20040208212757.GW28571@lug-owl.de> By author: Jan-Benedict Glaw In newsgroup: linux.dev.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. -hpa -- PGP public key available - finger hpa@zytor.com Key fingerprint: 2047/2A960705 BA 03 D3 2C 14 A8 A8 BD 1E DF FE 69 EE 35 BD 74 "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Bahá'u'lláh Just Say No to Morden * The Shadows were defeated -- Babylon 5 is renewed!!