[syslinux] Re: grub compatible

[H. Peter Anvin]

Bruce M Beach wrote:
> 
>   I know that the bios gives some recognition to the scsi's because
>   during boot you can see it scanning the scsi bus for drives and
>   I have booted of a scsi to see if I can do it, but even if it
>   were straigthforward to do I still have to config the bios to boot
>   that drive. It seems that booting off the floppy is best for me
>   since I can tell it the kernel that I working with and give a drive.
>   The only problems with floppies is that they are somewhat slow
>   and also for 6 months now I have been getting
> 
>      warning: kernel is too big for standalone boot from floppy
> 

This means you can't boot from a floppy without the aid of something
like syslinux.

	-hpa