On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 11:57:51AM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> Oh, is kloader real?  I somehow thought it was just a fantasy.
> 
> This gives another way round the 2.8MB floppy image problem with i386
> CD boot:  Have a small kernel that has drivers for whatever hardware
> and file systems are needed to talk to the CD, but no drivers for other
> hardware; and let it chain to a larger GENERIC or INSTALL kernel loaded
> from the CD.

It's only supported on a few platforms.. it certainly isn't on i386
or amd64, and the way that the kernel is bootstrapped, it can't be.

- Frank