Using ADLO with Linuxbios

ron minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Fri Apr 25 15:10:01 CEST 2003


On Sat, 26 Apr 2003, Deepak Kotian wrote:

> So, if I want to boot from Compact Flash IDE which has Linux, would
> LinuxBIOS directly boot it.
> Do I really need ADLO for this purpose ? And also can one do away with
> etherboot as
> well ?
> If ADLO is not needed, then would the kernel image be read by the LINUXBIOS
> directly
> from the IDE if we specific the path of the vmlinuz image.
> 
> I read a message from Ron, that one can just
> do
> cat vmlinux..gz > /dev/hda1 and etherboot would be OK.

cat elfImage > /dev/hda1

make sure it is a linuxbios-format elfImage

ron




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