Re: Kernels > 1M

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Mon, 09 Aug 1999 02:58:04 -0700

Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > W=FCrzburg, remember?) into a common bootloader for all architectures. =
> > That
> > should make life a bit easier for the distributors and documentati=
> > on
> > authors ...
> >
> > Are there any _REAL_ problems that would prevent this?
>
> Lots of us just write raw kernel images to disk still. Its a very nice
> way of doing automated boot/test
>

I guess I find that a bit hard to believe... it seems that if you want
to automate it it would be a lot easier and cleaner to use LILO, and not
a disk in the drive. For boot disks I personally want access to the
kernel command line, hence I use SYSLINUX (but I'm biased, of course!)

-hpa

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