Okay, that sort of makes sense! I can only try! Can you email these to mr or should I download them from someplace?
--Pat On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > > Just to clear on this issue. > > > > I would take my DOC, format it to dos, put syslinux on it > > > > Copy the DOC kernel and module to the DOC, along with the rest of the > > contents of the Dachstein floppy (going small first) > > > > and presto, it works? > > Or not... > > > What did I miss? I know it's not that easy. > > The system you list would boot-up (BIOS POST), then syslinux would run and > load the kernel and initial ramdisk image. At that point, the kernel would > execute linuxrc, which would try to load your LRP pacakges. At this point, > everything would die, since the kernel (and hence linuxrc) doesn't know how > to read data from the DOC...only the BIOS (and through it, syslinux) know > how to read the DOC until you load kernel modules to support it. > Remember...linux doesn't talk to any hardware through the BIOS. > > NOTE: The kenel modules to talk to the DOC can be loaded at runtime from > the ramdisk image...this is why the initrd support is in the kernel in the > first place... > > Charles Steinkuehler > http://lrp.steinkuehler.net > http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) > > _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
