Re: [debian-knoppix] Possible way to use larger kernels
What I'm trying to describe is a way for someone who's
bios doesn't support el torrito to boot a knoppix cd
using isolinux (or any bootable cd) from a floppy.
This way a kernel could be used that is too large to
fit on a floppy.
--- Christian Leber <christian@leber.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 02:56:53PM -0800, Rib Rdb
wrote:
>
> >Would it be possible to create a floppy with either
a
> >specialized loader (possibly something like lilo,
or a
> >microkernel or something else) that would read the
> >el torrito info from the cd and then run the boot
> >code that is on the cd?
>
> Images with 2.8 MB are normaly not a problem.
> But there is some old obscure brocken hardware that
> don insists of 1.4 MB images.
>
> On a lot of hardware hd emulation works, than you
> can make much bigger kernels or initrd's.
>
> Christian Leber
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