boot linux from an ide

Ronald G. Minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Wed Oct 27 09:30:01 CEST 2004


On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Gin wrote:

> I have a board with intel E7501 and Xeon CPU. We want to boot the linux
> kernel from the IDE drive(we don't need the compressed linux kernel
> part). What should I change in the config file to make it do that?

use FILO or ETherboot, or (best) enable FILO in etherboot, and you can 
boot kernel from ext2 partitions.

ron



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