How to create a boot disk on Fedora C2

William Hooper whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Tue Jun 22 13:59:19 UTC 2004


Timothy Murphy said:
> ne... wrote:
> 
>> ' - Booting a kernel directly from a floppy without the assistance of a
>>  bootloader such as LILO, is no longer supported.'
> 
> Maybe it's not "supported" (is anything supported?)
> but it's perfectly possible, as I'm doing it with a syslinux floppy. (Read
> /usr/share/doc/syslinux*/syslinux.doc.)

"...without the assistance of a bootloader"

http://syslinux.zytor.com/
"The SYSLINUX Project covers lightweight bootloaders..."

You are using the documented work around.

-- 
William Hooper





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