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Subject: Re: Unable to boot 2.4.0-test12 (0224 AX:0212 BX:BC00 CX:5101 DX:000.)
To: peter@cadcamlab.org (Peter Samuelson)
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 00:19:22 +0000 (GMT)
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> As someone (Jeff Garzik?) was saying a week or two ago, can we please
> kill the x86 boot sector already?  With today's kernels, 'over 500k or
> so' is probably the common case.  Is there *anything* the builtin code
> can do better than syslinux?

Its just plain easier to use

	scp arch/i386/boot/bzImage somebox:/dev/fd0
	ssh root@somebox reboot

is how I do at least part of my testing


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