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
