On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 04:20:52PM -0800, Timm Gleason wrote:
> a bzImage will not boot itself off of a floppy. Already tried it, doesn't
> work.
> Peter Svensson writes:
> > If you use lilo on the floppy it should work. I think someone said a wh=
ile
> > back that support for selfbooting kernels were going away.=20
> OK, can someone confirm this? If this is true, how does one go about
> creating new installation floppies from these larger kernels? We use the
> Debian distribution currently.
But Debian uses bzimages for quite a while now. syslinux supports bzimages
and initrd since version 1.39 or earlier. For details how to construct a
bootdisk get the boot-floppies package.
Nils
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