Hello again from Gregg C Levine To be honest Adam, the thought that I brought up earlier today, wasn't well presented, but you did answer it accurately. My big problem as near as I can tell, is that the currently available versions of their floppy based RTL are older kernels, and they have no plans to update it. I think your suggestion of using the ADLO arrangement is what I am looking for. But I am looking for suggestions from the group. ------------------- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------ "The Force will be with you...Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi "Use the Force, Luke."� Obi-Wan Kenobi (This company dedicates this E-Mail to General Obi-Wan Kenobi ) (This company dedicates this E-Mail to Master Yoda )
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:linuxbios- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Agnew > Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 3:19 AM > To: Gregg C Levine > Cc: Linuxbios > Subject: Re: Floppy drives and Linux BIOS > > > I'm confused. What's your question? If you could use the same floppy image > on a series of machines, with some running their normal bios and at least > one running linuxbios? > > If that is your question, then I would say yes. If you make the kernel > image on the floppy with linuxbios support. And if you can't change the > kernel image, then you could use ADLO/Bochs to implement the same BIOS > services that you would have on a commercial BIOS. > > - Adam Agnew > > On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Gregg C Levine wrote: > > > Hello from Gregg C Levine > > Here's a question that's definitely going to keep me up nights. Can a > > properly configured and working Linux BIOS image, boot something else > > via the floppy drive, in this case a normal 3.5 drive setup as the A > > drive? > > > > Well at least from the point of view of the motherboard with its > > original BIOS, it would be setup as the A drive. Basically our friends > > at FSMLabs market the RTLinux kits. They also make available the same > > thing under the GPL license, I still haven't figured if there is a > > loss of functionality between the two. At some point they were working > > on a floppy drive sized version of the product. > > > > Before committing to having a working Linux BIOS image based on it, > > what I am leaning towards is having the chosen image boot the floppy > > drive sized version, and then facilitate whatever tests I, (or my > > staff), have in mind. Probably between two or more machines, with one > > of them being the lucky one with the working Linux BIOS image on it, > > in place of the commodity BIOS. I suspect they all would need to be > > the same machine for this to work. And of course the company > > unofficially tells me that they have actually discontinued work on > > this floppy drive sized version of their product. So far, I can't seem > > to get them to tell me why. > > ------------------- > > Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > "The Force will be with you...Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi > > "Use the Force, Luke."� Obi-Wan Kenobi > > (This company dedicates this E-Mail to General Obi-Wan Kenobi ) > > (This company dedicates this E-Mail to Master Yoda ) > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Linuxbios mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linuxbios mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
