[syslinux] booting from floppy

[H. Peter Anvin]

Roberto De Leo wrote:
>>
>>
>> There is a way to get the kernel itself (as opposed to syslinux) to load
>> a ramdisk from a second floppy, though.  It's an important distinction,
>> because for one thing the kernel will not work from anything but a real
>> legacy floppy -- no USB, IDE, or any kind of emulated device.
>>
> This sounds nice because I am planning to use it only on real floppy
> drives.
> 
> The mechanism you are talking about is maybe the one that is used on
> slackware
> bootdisks?
> With this mechanism is it possible to provide a sort of configuration
> file, such
> as syslinux.cfg or lilo.conf?
> Where can I find docs about this?
> 

Look in the Documentation directory of the kernel.  Search for load_ramdisk.

	-hpa