Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jun 2004 14:56:32 -0400 | From | Brian Gerst <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] restore floppy boot image |
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Joshua wrote: > After installing the 2.6.7 kernel a week ago, I had LILO problems > (lilo bombed on the kernel image). My first thought was to dd the kernel > to a floppy, and boot Windows so that I could get a new LILO (I have > a winmodem for dialup). My second thought was better check w/ hexdump > first. > > I saw that "booting from floppy is no longer supported" message, and > thought "This won't do. > > Rather than go back to the old version, I thought that I could do it > better. Maybe I did and maybe I didn't, but this time the bzImage loading > code fits into a single sector (no more need of bootsect_kludge). > > Patch-signed-off-by: Joshua Hudson <jhudson@cyberspace.org> >
Direct floppy booting was removed for good reasons: it was broken in many setups and is easily replaced by syslinux. See make bzdisk.
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