Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org> writes:
> Ross Harvey <ross@teraflop.com> writes:
> > If you want el torito-style boot-from-CD _and_ a ramdisk root, you just
> > have to go back to a smaller kernel. If you are willing to open the CD or
> > to put the miniroot on the CD, then ustarfs could, in the first case, open
> > a specific file instead of `disk 2', and in the second case, any boot fs
> > would work...the floppy need hold only the kernel.
> 
> Can't a CDROM boot a 2.88MB file system?

I'm concerned about how well that scales. Ideally, I'd like a solution 
that we don't have to update again in a year or two but can hold on to 
for quite a while.

Perry