Antony Stone wrote:
In the UK they cost about GBP20 - so I guess that's about EUR30 / USD30 in the rest of the world...
Is there a web-seller or something?
Because they do not have a large enough capacity. Standard BIOS chips are
2megabits (= 32 kilobytes), which is not neough to hold a Linux kernel.
256KB perhaps? And how many mbits are those disc-on-chip?
>I can think those chips provide particular features, butSo even if I have a flash big enough to store a complete kernel, I won't be able to use it with linuxbios? Only for diskless boxes perhaps? What if I do have an hard disk in the system?
>which ones exactly?
The main thing which DoC does which you can't do with standard Flash Roms is
to format them as a Silicon Disc, and put a file system into them.
I'm surprised, I though it was easy to find few megaBYTES flash chips nowadays. Isn't it possible to use my 8MB compact-flash card? ehhehe>Aren't common flash/eeprom chips much easier to find >and cheaper to buy? Yes, but they're too small.
You can program a Flash Rom chip on your motherboard - no external programmer
needed - that's how you upgrade the BIOS even if you're not doing anything
with LinuxBIOS.
yes, I know; however I thought that burning several megabits non standard flash chips could have required an external device or something. But it was only a supposition.
However, I must say the price of a DoC is quite high... very comparable to the cost of a pcchips motherboard, which I can find for as low as 45EUR... 30 (plus shipping!) for the DoC is much...
There is no other possible solution about this? I will have an IDE hard disk in the system... perhaps it's possible to have a working LB without a DoC?
bye, thank you
as
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