Floppy Support

Terry Lambert tlambert2 at mindspring.com
Sun May 4 13:14:06 PDT 2003


Tim Kientzle wrote:
> I suppose it's time to modify the boot loader to
> load a single kernel image from multiple floppies.

It can load drivers from a seperate location ...as long as the
separate location has a driver that allows you to access it.


> That, at least, would end the continual release
> breakage: the release builder could just create
> as many floppy images as necessary.

You can't do this and do the non-El Torito floppy-on-CDROM
boot hack, since the BIOS will only fake up a single floppy.

-- Terry


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