Subject: Re: LFS as root File-System.
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
From: Andrew Gillham <gillham@vaultron.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/15/2001 10:35:58
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 09:26:19AM -0700, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 11:44:22AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> 
>  > /boot itself can't load kernel from lfs
> 
> There is LFS support in libsa, so making /boot load the kernel from
> LFS is a simple matter of adding like 3 lines of code to a table in
> the i386 boot loader code.

It would be nice to load boot from a floppy and have it able to load
the kernel from the LFS / file system.  Even if boot itself can't be
on LFS, the LFS support would be a good first step I think.  Then a
boot floppy (or dosboot.com) could be used rather than having to find
the kernel on a FFS or floppy, etc.

-Andrew