On Wednesday 08 January 2003 10:46 pm, Alessio Sangalli wrote: > Antony Stone wrote:
> > 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? Sorry - yes, 256kbytes is correct. > And how many mbits are those disc-on-chip? The ones most people use (MD-2800-D08) are 8 megabytes. > So 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? If you have a flash chip big enough fro a kernel I don't think it'll fit into the normal 32 pin socket used by 2 mbit BIOS chips. However, if you can get a kernel into a chip, then you can certainly have your root fs on a hard drive or across a network. > 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 Yes, it is. You can get IDE to compact flash adapters, and this will let you boot your machine from CF without needing LinuxBIOS. > 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... Please tell me where to get a PC-Chips motherboard for 45 Euro. I like the sound of this. > 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? You can get LinuxBIOS + etherboot into a 2 Mbit Flash chip if you can boot a kernel across the network. Regards, Antony. -- Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. You'll feel much better about things once you do. _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
