Re: [SLUG] syslinux, linuxbbc, and gentoo

From: Derek Glidden (dglidden@illusionary.com)
Date: Thu Jun 26 2003 - 19:13:02 EDT


On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 18:40, Robert Eanes wrote:

> Is it possible to boot the machine from a floppy to
> some level and then boot the kernel off the gentoo
> livecd so that I can continue with the install like
> normal. I've checked the Gentoo website: they
> recommend using Tom's rescure disk, but for the latest
> version the chroot into livecd complains that the boot
> kernel from Tom's is too old.
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.

You might be able to boot a DOS disk with CDROM support and use loadlin
or syslinux to load the kernel directly off the Cd. It's probably
basically the same thing as what the elTorito boot image on the CD is
doing.

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