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On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 10:21:13PM -0300, Horst von Brand wrote: > The "floppy booting" discussed here is doing: > > dd if=bzImage of=/dev/fd0 > > and booting that floppy directly. I really don't remember when I did that > last time, it must have been at least 5 years ago. I do use it frequently. I frequently boot systems using PXE, but sometimes, either the bios is buggy, or I don't find how to set it up correctly, so the better, and most reliable solution is to insert a floppy containing the kernel which would have been loaded from the PXE server. In fact, NONE of my systems need nor use an initrd. I find it really useful to be able to boot from one single file. Having to set up an initrd is really a pain compared to other trivial solutions. I'd really like Linux not to become like microsoft products : it's not because one developper doesn't have the need for something that he must prevent all his users/customers from using it. I think that there are several people here who think they need ipconfig, and that should be enough to understand that it's a useful feature, even if you don't need it yourself. Regards, Willy - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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