[1013] in RedHat Linux List
Re: 4.0 Fixes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Milam, Charles R. 1LT CAP)
Fri Oct 25 19:11:44 1996
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 17:57:58 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Milam, Charles R. 1LT CAP" <cmilam@cap.af.mil>
To: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com, Donnie Barnes <djb@redhat.com>,
Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961025185120.24824D-100000@peanut.senie.com>
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
Reply-To: redhat-list@redhat.com
On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Daniel Senie wrote:
> When building a floppy for booting in previous versions of Linux (I
> suspect this still holds) you take the zImage and copy it to /dev/fd0 and
> DON'T create a filesystem on the floppy. It's treated as a character
> device, containing just the kernel.
And this does indeed work, however, I need to be able to use LILO to pass
boot-time parameters to the kernel. LILO from the hard drive doesn't
work. I get the "LI" hang.
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