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>>4. Load it either with SYSLINUX or LOADLIN >>(example: LOADLIN BZIMAGE initrd=Image.gz >>root=/dev/ram) >>Almost any linux on a floppy disk uses this way to >>boot linux (example: LRP project). > >That's exactly my problem. The title of the original >message was "GPL problems - booting without >floppy/IDE". How do I start SYSLINUX or LOADLIN? > >I can't use a floppy as this is an _embedded_ system. >For prototyping I don't care to squeeze the GPL a >little or hook up a floppy, after all the customer >just borrows the system from us and it will never go >in production in this form. But I _need_ a solution >which is legally clean and only contains NOR, and >can't see any way to load the initrd-image without the >NOR-driver linked in in the first place. Perhaps the >bootloader code is usable, could you give some >feedback on that? > >We need a legal, fully embedded, floppy-less solution >(preferably NOR-only as well). I am sure we are not >the only company facing this dilemma, how does >everybody else solve it? > >PS: could you bounce the reply to my mail-address as >well, I was waiting for 2 weeks without realizing your >reply only appeared at the forum... :-)

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