Subject: Re: still not clear on the bootloader thing
To: Alex Pelts <alexp@broadcom.com>
From: Brian <bmcewen@comcast.net>
List: port-cobalt
Date: 03/11/2005 13:52:13
>  Boot loader on 2.0 cd is the same as on 1.6.1 cd. Most of the cd is 
>the same except sets.

great, thanks very much.

>
>Boot loader and vmlinux.gz are on the ext2 partition which is not 
>normally mounted. You have to mount it yourself. The whole beauty of 
>the boot loader is that it loads kernels from bsd file system. You 
>still want to keep few kernels on the Linux file system just in case.

I set mine up to get mounted once for some reason and never undid it.

>I will soon modify restore cd so you can just boot from it without 
>initiating install. In that case you can recover your cobalt should 
>something go wrong.

that would be neat.

thanks for all the work! and the reply.

Brian