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No floppy boot supportNo floppy boot supportPosted Jul 17, 2003 8:45 UTC (Thu) by yodermk (subscriber, #3803)Parent article: The 2.5 "what to expect" document, v0.42
What's with the lack of support for booting directly from floppies? It is awfully convenient to "dd bzImage /dev/fd0" to be able to test a kernel from a floppy or for a quick and dirty boot floppy. Sure, putting LILO on it isn't THAT big a deal, but it's another step or two...
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No floppy boot support Posted Jul 17, 2003 18:30 UTC (Thu) by dw (subscriber, #12017) [Link] It might be another step or two, but it's probably another low-level special case removed from the kernel bootup code. Some of this stuff is written in arch-specific assembler and the less of it the better.
No floppy boot support Posted Jul 17, 2003 22:10 UTC (Thu) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link] Not only that, but it seems that the kernel is getting too big to fit on a floppy a lot of the time anyway. Perhaps using isolinux and putting it on a CD-RW would be an alternative? I've found it pretty easy to test out Slackware boot CDs this way.
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