RE: Re:Re: Problem with syslinux.cfg

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I got it, thank you,

Is this means I need to wait for the next release of Linux to be able to
kickstart usb based system?

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Katz [mailto:katzj@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 4:58 PM
To: Jim Lin
Cc: 'kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: Re: Re:Re: Problem with syslinux.cfg


On Wednesday, October 10 2001, Jim Lin said:
> Would you mind explain why was I able to use usb floppy to boot from
floppy.
> I saw initrd.img and vmlinuz were being read and executed? Looks like the
> system has no problem reading from usb floppy drive.

Because the initrd and kernel are read by syslinux using BIOS functions
and your BIOS can boot from USB floppies (but doesn't provide legacy
floppy emulation support)

Jeremy





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