Re: [PATCH] Re: 2.4.5 does not link on Ruffian (alpha)

[Richard Henderson]

On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 07:54:17PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> FWIW the documentation seems to imply that the option is necessary only
> when directly booting from SRM, i.e.. no bootloader is involved at all. 

Err, well, you can't have _no_ bootloader.

> It uses the example of MILO's presence or absence as indicating the need
> for this option.

Exactly.  aboot doesn't substitute.

> So... is it safe to always enable this option, with a little hacking
> perhaps?  :)   

Well, yes, it is obviously possible.  The generic config
does what you want.  You just need to permanently enable
some of that configury.

r~