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Re: 2.6 kernel changes



Steven Pritchard wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 08:46:29AM -0600, Danny Sauer wrote:
> 
>>Some of you guys follow kernel dev more closely than I do.  So, do any 
>>of you know off the top of your head why "Direct booting from floppy is 
>>no longer supported.  You should now use a boot loader program 
>>instead."?  I kinda liked being able to "dd if=path/to/bzImage 
>>of=/dev/fd0" to make a rescue disk, while it's a minor pain to use lilo...
> 
> 
> http://lwn.net/Articles/21512/ probably says it better than I could...

I'll be darned - I guess that's better then. :)

--Danny, who should really follow that stuff more closely


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