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From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
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Subject: Re: Unable to boot a raw kernel image :??
To: raul@pleyades.net (DervishD)
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 18:04:55 +0000 (GMT)
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> > > sense. Anyone uses floppies yet? Here in Spain a floppy is more
> > > expensive than a 80 min. CD...
> > Doesn't the in kernel bootloader have uses other than booting from
> > floppy?  What if you want to boot from a custom network boot prom?
> 
>     I'm not aware of such uses :??? AFAIK, the in kernel bootloader
> just exists for booting from raw floppies :?? Maybe HPA knows more
> about this.

No, it is only used for floppies, for some reason I was thinking of
something completely unrelated, ignore my previous post.

John.