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Re: creating another lilo floppy disk



On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Peter L. Peres wrote:

Yes yes, we know zImage is bootable, but the thing is you really want a
rescue disk that can help in fixing your system when it breaks, and not a
bare bootable kernel on a diskette. 

What I meant to tell Hetz was not to give this kind of advice to someone,
since when you're system dies for a reason, a rescue disk might be your
best friend, while a bootable kernel image wont do any good. It's obvious
that I didn't tell him that all the bootable diskettes he used till now
didn't really boot, since they DID boot, he saw it with his own eyes :)

--Ariel

> On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Ariel Biener wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> >
> >Whaaat ?Hetz, what are you talking about. zImage is the compressed
> >kernel, not a compressed bootable image.
> 
> Er, the zImage is both a compressed kernel AND a bootable image. When
> booted by LILO, its boot secor is byypassed by LILO but it is there and a
> bare zImage written into a floppy will boot, for sure. Also rtfm rdev.
> 
> bye,
> 
> 	Peter
> 

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