Subject: Re: still not clear on the bootloader thing
To: Alex Pelts <alexp@broadcom.com>
From: Brian <bmcewen@comcast.net>
List: port-cobalt
Date: 03/11/2005 13:52:13
> Boot loader on 2.0 cd is the same as on 1.6.1 cd. Most of the cd is
>the same except sets.
great, thanks very much.
>
>Boot loader and vmlinux.gz are on the ext2 partition which is not
>normally mounted. You have to mount it yourself. The whole beauty of
>the boot loader is that it loads kernels from bsd file system. You
>still want to keep few kernels on the Linux file system just in case.
I set mine up to get mounted once for some reason and never undid it.
>I will soon modify restore cd so you can just boot from it without
>initiating install. In that case you can recover your cobalt should
>something go wrong.
that would be neat.
thanks for all the work! and the reply.
Brian