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Posted Jul 01, 2008 at 3:56:24 PM
Subject: Linux Kernel on new embedded hardware

I'm trying to load a Linux kernel onto a new piece of hardware. It's an embedded computer system, so it doesn't have an extremely large hard disk, or excessive amounts of RAM, or anything like that. But at this point I'm trying to figure out how to make my linux kernel (patched for real-time capabilities) boot without a floppy disk on my target computer.

Can anyone give me a little information on how to do this? I'm not too familiar with playing with the MBR/bootstrap process, so I was wondering if anyone could give me any info here.

Thanks a lot in advance.
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Shashank Sharma
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Posted: Jul 09, 2008 7:17:55 PM
Subject: Linux Kernel on new embedded hardware

So, in all that text I missed what your real question is. Do you want to be able to boot your machine, without using a floppy disk? You don't have to use the boot floppy if you've installed a boot-loader. When installing Linux, you're given the option to install a boot-loader. This is a piece of software that gets installed in the MBR and presents you a menu of installed operating systems to select when you boot your machine. So, you don't need to have a boot floppy if you install a boot-loader.

Also, if you want to boot into the new patched-kernel, you'll only have to make the relevant changes to the bootloader configuration files, and again, you don't have to use a boot floppy.

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