Re: Unable to boot 2.4.0-test12 (0224 AX:0212 BX:BC00 CX:5101 DX:000.)

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sat Dec 16 2000 - 19:19:22 EST


> As someone (Jeff Garzik?) was saying a week or two ago, can we please
> kill the x86 boot sector already? With today's kernels, 'over 500k or
> so' is probably the common case. Is there *anything* the builtin code
> can do better than syslinux?

Its just plain easier to use

        scp arch/i386/boot/bzImage somebox:/dev/fd0
        ssh root@somebox reboot

is how I do at least part of my testing

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