Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 11:38:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 11:38:12 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:57098 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 11:38:12 -0500 Message-ID: <3E662A5C.4060307@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 08:48:28 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Zytor Communications User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030211 X-Accept-Language: en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Bradford CC: DervishD , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Unable to boot a raw kernel image :?? References: <200303051633.h25GXkYk005773@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <200303051633.h25GXkYk005773@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 512 Lines: 17 John Bradford wrote: > > Doesn't the in kernel bootloader have uses other than booting from > floppy? What if you want to boot from a custom network boot prom? > Then you probably need Etherboot. The in-kernel boot loader (bootsect.S) will not help you. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/