Booting from floppy

Ronald G. Minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Fri Dec 6 17:16:01 CET 2002


On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Big Pilot wrote:

> 
> 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?

floppies are dead. What's wrong with a cdrom boot?

ron




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