Re: RFC: What should be done about kernel-image's bootloader questions
Ethan Benson wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 03:07:35AM +0200, Michel Daenzer wrote:
> > As the bootloader lives in AmigaOS entirely it doesn't make sense to
> > create a package for it.
>
> nor to add anything about it to kernel-package...
It already has to handle the subarch, do you think this would be a big effort?
> you would be better off to make a real bootloader not relying on
> proprietary OSes, or teach the current one to read the kernels off the
> ext2 root filesystem.
AFAIK Roman Zippel had implemented a LILO like loader at one point but it got
lost. :(
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
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