Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU> writes:
>   | the boot floppy image on the CD doesn't have to contain a ramdisk kernel;
>   | it need only contain a kernel prepared to mount a CD as a root.
> 
> The problem with this approach is that it leads to CDs that only boot
> correctly on one architecture (that, or a lot more work indeed).
> It ought be possible to do better than that.   Maybe a chroot into an
> archiecture dependent sub-dir of a 9660 filesys?

How about, instead, having the boot floppy load the ramdisk root
image, either from a floppy or from a directory on the CD? That way,
we could avoid the "root on the CD" problem entirely.

Perry