> > Then, you can boot from floppy, and boot into *anything* you like. > > the floppy drops you into a simple commandline, where you can tell it: > > - from which disk toboot (hard drive 1, hard drive 1, which partition, etc) > > - in case of linux: which kernel to boot. (It can read ext2, reiserfs, etc!!!) > > In case you don't know those in advance, can you: > > * list contents of directories? (ls /boot) > * display the contents of files? (cat /etc/lilo.conf) > * Will it follow symlinks? (/vmlinuz -> /boot/vmlinuz-<something> )
Yes, you can see the filesystem and the file contents. there isn't an ls command, but something equivalent (type in a filename and press tab for autocompletion :) There is cat, I think. (built in command). didn't try with links, but it understands the FS, so you can always do /boot/vmli<TAB> You can (and should) also add kernel parameters, such as root=/dev/hdb3) > Happen to have it in a format that is writable by rawrite? I figure that > this requires just those two blocks in one file. But does the whole stage2 > fit in one block? The stage2 thing was much larger (it has a command interpreter, and filesystem code, and code to boot linux, bsd, HURD kernels..) Actually I did this at home, but I can d/l and compile it in no time if you like. That will create the stage1 and stage2 files. (and more stuff which is not strictly needed). But what do I do then? dd the two together into a single file and send you? ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
