Re: Unable to boot a raw kernel image :??

[Mikael Pettersson]

H. Peter Anvin writes:
 > Mikael Pettersson wrote:
 > >  > 
 > >  > This is the patch I'm trying to get Linus to accept.
 > > 
 > > That's similar to what you posted to LKML a while ago, and
 > > it has the limitations of requiring mountable /dev/fd0, which
 > > needs a magic entry in /etc/fstab ("user" privs, not "owner"),
 > > and MS-DOS FS support in the kernel used for the build.
 > > 
 > 
 > No, it doesn't (if you have SYSLINUX 2.02 or higher.)

Indeed. The SYSLINUX 2.02 + mtools combination works like a charm
for 'make bzdisk'. I'm happy with your nobootsect patch.

/Mikael