From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: ast@domdv.de (Andreas Steinmetz)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] BOOTP Standalone Floppy Boot (2.4.13pre6)
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 18:48:18 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E15w5f0-0000SA-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20011023132050.ast@domdv.de> from "Andreas Steinmetz" at Oct 23, 2001 01:20:50 PM
> If using 2.4.x standalone floppy boot (i.e. dd if=vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0, then
> booting from this floppy) with a BOOTP/NFS root enabled kernel fails. This
> behaviour is different from 2.2.x. 2.4.x uses:
Standalone floppy boot is purely historic interest, and likely to go away
Stick lilo or similar on the floppy
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-23 17:41 UTC|newest]
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2001-10-23 11:20 [PATCH] BOOTP Standalone Floppy Boot (2.4.13pre6) Andreas Steinmetz
2001-10-23 17:48 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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