On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 09:58:07AM +0200, Niki Waibel wrote: > what about haveing bios savior + DoC in a mb _and_ > connecting the bios savior switch to an address pin... > > that way it should be possible to have enough room > in the bios savior rom for doing everything. then > the DoC could be activated... > > i think that booting should start with the internal > bios savior chip (with linuxbios). and then, at some > stage (all init of mem and copying of bios savior rom done) > the switch is "activated" (by a read of some address or sthg).
If you connect the switch to A18, you can have the ROM at 4G-256K (it's where the ROM resides normally) and the DoC at 4G-512K (or vice versa)...? I don't know if it really works but if it does, you can have existing LinuxBIOS code in the ROM and configure it to load kernel from the DoC. However I don't know what the advantage of it compaired to the IDE-CF configuration. -- Takeshi _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
