Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 12:32:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 12:32:26 -0500 Received: from [66.70.28.20] ([66.70.28.20]:30219 "EHLO maggie.piensasolutions.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 12:32:25 -0500 Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 18:01:02 +0100 From: DervishD To: John Bradford Cc: hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Unable to boot a raw kernel image :?? Message-ID: <20030305170102.GC19439@DervishD> References: <20030305161244.GB19439@DervishD> <200303051633.h25GXkYk005773@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200303051633.h25GXkYk005773@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: Pleyades User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 681 Lines: 18 Hi John :) John Bradford dixit: > > sense. Anyone uses floppies yet? Here in Spain a floppy is more > > expensive than a 80 min. CD... > 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? I'm not aware of such uses :??? AFAIK, the in kernel bootloader just exists for booting from raw floppies :?? Maybe HPA knows more about this. Ra?l - 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/