Re: 2.6 kernel changes

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

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...

Steve
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