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Subject: Re: [PATCH] BOOTP Standalone Floppy Boot (2.4.13pre6)
To: ast@domdv.de (Andreas Steinmetz)
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 18:48:18 +0100 (BST)
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> If using 2.4.x standalone floppy boot (i.e. dd if=vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0, then
> booting from this floppy) with a BOOTP/NFS root enabled kernel fails. This
> behaviour is different from 2.2.x. 2.4.x uses:

Standalone floppy boot is purely historic interest, and likely to go away
Stick lilo or similar on the floppy
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