Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 12:52:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 12:52:47 -0500 Received: from 81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk ([81.2.122.30]:30471 "EHLO 81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 12:52:46 -0500 From: John Bradford Message-Id: <200303051804.h25I4txU006024@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> Subject: Re: Unable to boot a raw kernel image :?? To: raul@pleyades.net (DervishD) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 18:04:55 +0000 (GMT) Cc: hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20030305170102.GC19439@DervishD> from "DervishD" at Mar 05, 2003 06:01:02 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 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: 782 Lines: 18 > > > 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. No, it is only used for floppies, for some reason I was thinking of something completely unrelated, ignore my previous post. John. - 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/