On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 12:52:36PM -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jun 1999 yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu wrote:
>
> > >
> > > Except it doesn't work unless you can read the CD. Which you can't with
> > > the current PCMCIA approach.
> >
> > How do you boot up the kernel from CD if you can't read the cd?
>
> The bios read the CD and loads the kernel into memory along with an
> initial ram disk that has the userspace tools for locating and using the
> cdrom from within Linux.
>
> > > NOW do you see why I think a user-mode component is simply not acceptable
> > > for any basic functionality?
> >
> > The problem is clear. The solution of putting it kernel for testing seems
> > dubious and comes from a surprising source.
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