I like Linux on BIOS, but hearing about how many mobo's had to get thrashed down at Los Alamos's ACL (by Matt) made me, well, scared. I'm looking forward to some end-user-ready linux bios systems!
I know it boots much faster, but why would you have to have a linux bios (if you already do boot from CF) in order to have a 100% solid state linux system? Ben PS - the main reason I saw for linux-bios was foreshortened boot times... what were the others again? On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 15:02:03 -0800 Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Ben Barrett wrote: | | > ...that's what I thought you meant. Well, you can have that today! | > Just put in the IDE-CF adapter, and the "special" magical mystery | > memory is a CF that you boot from. It is "programmable" as you call | > it, meaning you can write a new OS to it, and it is nonvolatile. | > The problem with using a DIMM socket for this, as I see it, is that | > today's motherboards (and yesterday's) are created to handle RAM and | > drives, but not either on the other's interface! So, to do this you | > put CF on the *IDE* interface, and RAM on the *memory* interface. | | Even better, flash Linux onto your BIOS. The BIOS is also nonvolatile | memory, and it's directly addressable from the CPU. That's what the | LinuxBIOS project is all about. | | With a Linux BIOS and a CF root drive, you could have a 100% solid | state Linux box. | | > Can anyone speak at greater length about this? Is it the North | > bridge?(The south bridge handles PCI, right? or does it also do the | > IDE?) | | Not me. | | -- _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
