I think the DoC mess is here to stay, there is one potential solution if people are insisting on having DoC, and that is to make up a little board which plugs into a BIOS socket which has both a 256k flash device and a little bit of decode logic for a DoC, as well as a DoC - if anyone is interested in this approach, I could knock together a few prototypes for a couple of $'s, but I have my reservations as to this being a permanent long-term solution for production systems.
Hamish > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ronald G Minnich > Sent: 09 September 2002 04:25 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: The DoC problem > > > Anybody have a good idea in the long term about how to solve the DoC mess. > > I really like this sis730 mainboard with DoC. It's neat to come up in > busybox and have all the power of linux available even if the disk is not > yet loaded with linux. But that won't work with 735 due to more complex > chipset setup. So we have to use FLASH. Then we can't have the nice > startup with the kernel etc. that we get with DoC. > > We need big flash. But we can't just put big flash in the IDE slot -- then > we can't have a disk drive! > > Are we really stuck with 256K forever? is there some plugin that gives us > FLASH AND a DoC? > > ron > > _______________________________________________ > Linuxbios mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
