Re: Killing off the boot sector (was: [STATUS 2.5] January 8, 2002)

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa _at_ xxxxxxxxx>]

Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> 
> While I have no particular affection for the in-kernel boot loader,
> I do care about being able to test new kernels with 'make bzdisk'
> as a regular user, using raw (no file system) floppies.
> 
> Last time I checked, LILO required both a file system and root privs
> (for FIBMAP). Would syslinux work better?
> 

SYSLINUX will work if (a) you have write permission to the device and 
(b) the device is included in /etc/fstab with "user" permissions.

	-hpa



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