We are interested in using LinuxBIOS on our medical system, running the Digital Logic P5 PC-104 SBC. After reading these posts, and scanning the FAQ, I am confused about boot methods:
Will LinuxBIOS work on a stand-alone system with a EIDE disk? If floppy boot won't be supported, can it boot from cdrom? Thanks very much, Phil Brooks Phil Brooks - Software Engineer Olympic Medical 206-268-5119 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Ronald G. Minnich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 2:21 PM To: Big Pilot Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Booting from floppy On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Big Pilot wrote: > > So there are two issues: a) DOS isn't supported and b) the floppy as a > boot device isn't supported. That will make it a very difficult sell for > mobo manufacturers. Can you imagine me buying a Linux PC with LinuxBIOS > and it crashing. How am I going to repair it then? floppies are dead. What's wrong with a cdrom boot? 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
