> >
> > There is LFS support in libsa, so making /boot load the kernel from
> > LFS is a simple matter of adding like 3 lines of code to a table in
> > the i386 boot loader code.
>
> It would be nice to load boot from a floppy and have it able to load
> the kernel from the LFS / file system.  Even if boot itself can't be
> on LFS, the LFS support would be a good first step I think.  Then a
> boot floppy (or dosboot.com) could be used rather than having to find
> the kernel on a FFS or floppy, etc.
>
no need to use floppy

i use ffs, but have /boot on small (150kB) partition to allow my BIOS load
it on 20GB drive (my BIOS supports 8GB with LBA and 504MB in NORMAL).
/boot itself could load kernel from anywere probably because this BIOS has
extended int13 support.

you can have lfs in partition a in this example:

#        size   offset     fstype   [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
  a: 24614728   819500     4.2BSD     1024  8192    96   # (Cyl.  812*- 25232*)
  b:   819200      300       swap                        # (Cyl.    0*- 812*)
  c: 25434228        0     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 25232*)
  d: 25434228        0     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 25232*)
  e:      300        0     4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.    0 -  0*)