Re: [PATCH] restore floppy boot image

[Brian Gerst]

Joshua wrote:
> After installing the 2.6.7 kernel a week ago, I had LILO problems
> (lilo bombed on the kernel image). My first thought was to dd the kernel
> to a floppy, and boot Windows so that I could get a new LILO (I have
> a winmodem for dialup). My second thought was better check w/ hexdump
> first.
>
> I saw that "booting from floppy is no longer supported" message, and
> thought "This won't do.
>
> Rather than go back to the old version, I thought that I could do it
> better.  Maybe I did and maybe I didn't, but this time the bzImage loading
> code fits into a single sector (no more need of bootsect_kludge).
>
> Patch-signed-off-by: Joshua Hudson <jhudson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Direct floppy booting was removed for good reasons: it was broken in 
many setups and is easily replaced by syslinux.  See make bzdisk.

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				Brian Gerst
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