On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 08:38:18PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > The Cobalt case is special; it's firmware could almost be the definition > > of the term crap ... > > Can't you use the firmware to load a second stage booter, which can load larger > kernels? > Yes, but you still have to maintain a old style EXT2 partition just for the firmware. Besides, after a while your second stage loader starts to look like a boot loader anyway, once you've added network booting of large kernels, kernel command line support and the other things the original firmware was missing. P.
