Bug 1644

Summary: README errors about floppy booting and module building
Product: Other Reporter: David Balažic (david.balazic)
Component: OtherAssignee: Zwane Mwaikambo (zwane)
Status: CLOSED CODE_FIX    
Severity: low CC: rdunlap
Priority: P2    
Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: linux-2.6.0-test11 Subsystem:
Regression: --- Bisected commit-id:
Attachments: README update
linux/README update

Description David Balažic 2003-12-04 01:42:18 UTC 
Distribution: none
Hardware Environment: N/A
Software Environment: N/A
Problem Description:

The linu/README file has the following errors :

 - quote : If you configured any of the parts of the kernel as `modules', you
   will have to do "make modules" followed by "make modules_install".

AFAIK, modules are made by just "make", so this sentence might be wrong.

 - quote :  For some, this is on a floppy disk, in which case you can copy the
kernel bzImage file to /dev/fd0 to make a bootable floppy.

This does not work in 2.6.x anymore.

Steps to reproduce:

Read the README ...
Comment 1 Zwane Mwaikambo 2003-12-14 22:03:56 UTC 
I'll send a patch for this when Linus starts taking patches again.
Comment 2 Randy Dunlap 2004-02-23 11:29:25 UTC 
Linus is taking patches again  {but really i'm just testing bugzilla --
there were some problems reported}.
Comment 3 Randy Dunlap 2004-02-25 09:28:17 UTC 
sorry, all, but i need to test the URL reporting again.
it was incorrect 2 days ago but is supposed to be fixed now.
Comment 4 Zwane Mwaikambo 2004-02-25 11:04:12 UTC 
Created attachment 2228 [details]
README update

Here are a few updates
Comment 5 Zwane Mwaikambo 2004-02-25 15:57:19 UTC 
Created attachment 2234 [details]
linux/README update