Re: launching a kernel from the terminal

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
11 Oct 1999 17:43:56 GMT


Followup to: <38020AE2.ED662FE2@sxb.bsf.alcatel.fr>
By author: "P.Schmitt" <pschmitt@sxb.bsf.alcatel.fr>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Hi,
>
> I think that's a newbie question for some people here, but I didn't find
> the answer in the docs :
>
> It is possible to launch a kernel + ramdisk from the console line , just
> one time without using lilo, or is there a "one shot" option in lilo ?
>

The console line only exists in a boot loader such as LILO, LoadLin,
or SYSLINUX, so you definitely need a boot loader of some sort. What
boot loader you need depends on what you want to load *from*.

-hpa

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