Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Sep 2001 22:50:19 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Booting linux using Novell NetWare Remote Program Loader |
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Hi!
> >>Am I guessing correctly that this RPL thing is a floppy image emulator? > >>Then it probably becomes a matter of where that image lives (in memory, if > >>so where; or on the network and downloaded sector by sector.) You may > >>want to try to make a SYSLINUX image and see if it works. > >> > > > > Yep, it is floppy image emulator. People are telling me it is > > downloaded sector by sector. Do you have some "sure to boot" floppy > > image somewhere on ftp? > > Pavel > > > There is no such thing, but this is how you'd build a minimal SYSLINUX > floppy image (remove the -s for better performance but somewhat reduced > resistance to severe BIOS bugs): > > su > dd if=/dev/zero of=floppy.img bs=1024 count=1440 > mkdosfs floppy.img > syslinux -s floppy.img > mount -o loop -t msdos floppy.img /mnt > cp bzImage /mnt/linux > umount /mnt > sync
Hey, I tried this with syslinux 1.63, and it boots ;-). Wow. Thanx for help, hpa. Pavel -- The best software in life is free (not shareware)! Pavel GCM d? s-: !g p?:+ au- a--@ w+ v- C++@ UL+++ L++ N++ E++ W--- M- Y- R+ - 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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