Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Jun 2001 06:11:10 +0800 (SGT) | From | Jeff Chua <> | Subject | Re: Some experience of linux on a Laptop |
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On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 8: A way to change kernel without rebooting. I have no diskdrive or cddrive > > in my laptop so I often do drastic things when I install a new distribution. > > Thats actually an incredibly hard problem to solve. The only people who do > this level of stuff are some of the telephony folks, and the expensive > tandem non-stop boxes.
I use loadlin + initrd on my Toshiba and Ibm notebook. Boot up dos first, then to either a test linux or stable linux environment from the C drive. I setup a Menu in config.sys under dos to select which linux to boot up. If the test kernel doesn't work, I reboot the system to switch to the stable one. At least better than carrying a floppy around.
ps. Alan, thanks for replying to my "reiserfs replay" question.
Jeff
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