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2003 Oct 13
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Important feature missing: Floppy booting from 2 disks
...1.44 MB floppy. I simple don't manage to
squeeze a useful modern kernel & initrd on that. Don't tell me I'm the
only person with that problem. Yes, I know: CD or PXE boot is much better,
but there are situations where you need a floppy. A very useful
application for example are the RemoteInsightBoards of Compaq/now HP
servers. They allow to upload diskimages you can boot remotely w/o any
direct access to the system BUT it uses a BIOS emulation. Hence, a two
disk syslinux boot combo (one disk kernel, one initrd) is perfect. Normal
loading of initrd doesn't work as the linux kernel always go...