Booting from floppy

Big Pilot bigpilot at linuxmail.org
Fri Dec 6 17:02:00 CET 2002


So there are two issues: a) DOS isn't supported and b) the floppy as a boot device isn't supported. That will make it a very difficult sell for mobo manufacturers. Can you imagine me buying a Linux PC with LinuxBIOS and it crashing. How am I going to repair it then?

----- Original Message -----
From: Adam Sulmicki <adam at cfar.umd.edu>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 12:50:07 -0500 (EST)
To: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich at lanl.gov>
Subject: Re: Booting from floppy


> 
> > the u. md. guys will chime in here with an explanation :-)
> 
> I'm trying to use it as the opportunity to improve the FAQ :-)
> 
> From what I saw during the coverage of announcement there were quite a bit
> of folks unfamilar with the BIOS projects, an and this FAQ hopes to clear
> up the confusion.
> 
> 	http://www.eax.com/ADLO-FAQ.html
> 
> Big Pilot, if I may call you that, does this FAQ answers tose questions?
> The way I see, the part below is answered by Q5. Since I assume you are
> asking about LinuxBIOS. If you are really asking about linux kernel, then
> it is definitely wrong mailing list.
> 
> > > if Linux fails, how is one supposed to repair it? Or is the only
> > > option booting Linux off a floppy and repairing using that?
> 
> 
> > > I'm wondering whether it is still possible to boot DOS (or a free
> > > equivalent) from a floppy if LinuxBIOS is installed on the mobo.
> 
> As for above. We had limited success with Win98 which is DOS based (we can
> get as far as desktop screen, but there are issues), but as the Q6 says it
> is still long way to go.
> 
> As for the particular susbsystem -- floppy, it has not been tested at all,
> and is presumed not working at the moment.
> 
> -- 
> Adam Sulmicki
> http://www.eax.com 	The Supreme Headquarters of the 32 bit registers
> 
> 
> 

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