> Lastly, and most importantly, is this a bad idea or are there
> better ways to accomplish the same functionality? What I'm trying to
> achieve is a system where I can boot the same kernel & root fs on an
> arbitrary bootable device (ie., able to take a bootable floppy image and dd
> it to a fixed disk partition and boot it as-is).
You might be interested in my romdisk patch, which allows you to build a
bootable filesystem directly into the kernel image:
http://www.waste.org/~oxymoron/linux
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