<posted & mailed> William Hooper 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" I guess I misunderstood the question. But as a matter of interest, what was the previous method, which is now "not supported"? (I'd have thought that if you booted the system from a floppy then by definition you were using a bootloader. But I admit I'm not sure of the nomenclature in this area.) -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
