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Does anyone still remember when you could just dd the Linux kernel to a floppy and it would be its own bootloader? https://yosemitefoothills.com/LinuxBoot/BD-1
by userbinator 2y ago
Does anyone still remember when you could just dd the Linux kernel to a floppy and it would be its own bootloader?
https://yosemitefoothills.com/LinuxBoot/BD-1Disk.htm https://yosemitefoothills.com/LinuxBoot/BD-1Disk.htm
Here's some more documentation on this:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/x86/boot.txt https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/x86/boot.txt
What's old is new again... except 100x more complex and likely more than necessary.
- lproven 2y agoThat is exactly what I thought of when I read this post, yes.
- Thoreandan 2y agoJust checked and amusingly I'd forgotten that boot/root predated LILO, I must've first seen LILO when I installed Softlanding Linux. Since I didn't have any networking on my home machine, Linux was basically a "Look, run GCC on your home machine!" option for '91 that didn't involve going through DJGPP's DOS port.