Sounds about right. Put your kernel on an IDE device with a filesystem (FILO supports EXT2/3, Reiser, XFS, etc) and use FILO as your LinuxBIOS payload (payload /where/filo/is/located/filo.elf in your targets/via/epia-m/Config.lb file). You also need to tell FILO where yoru kernel is located and give it any options you want passed to the kernel in the "AUTOBOOT_FILE" line, which should look something like a LILO prompt: hda1:/kernel root/dev/hda3 console=ttyS0,115200
Boot image generally implies kernel. On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Michael Robinson wrote: > ---The trend seems to be NOT to use DiskOnChip but rather a CF <> IDE > adapter. Using FILO you can boot from the CF.--- > > So I'd flash FILO to the BIOS, then it would load the LinuxBIOS kernel > image, and then the kernel image would do whatever you want LinuxBIOS to > do, right? Or am I wrong... It says FILO loads a "boot image", whats the > definition of a "boot image", is it just the kernel? > > Thanks, > Michael Robinson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.fuzzymuzzle.com > > > > Larry Matter wrote: > > >>what > >>does the DiskOnChip provide to the LinuxBIOs project that the standard > >>flash chip can't? > >> > >> > > > >More than 2 megabits of storage. > > > > > > > >>My second is that I'm going to be using the VIA EPIA > >>MII motherboard which has a PLCC BIOS, as far as I can tell PLCC > >>DiskOnChips aren't very readily available. Should I use a DIP to PLCC > >>adapter; how did the other people who used this board do it? > >> > >> > > > >The trend seems to be NOT to use DiskOnChip but rather a CF <> IDE > >adapter. Using FILO you can boot from the CF. > > > > > > > > > >>My final > >>question is how do I pick the size of the DiskOnChip. > >> > >> > > > >So if you're going to go for the CF <> IDE, then it just needs to be as > >big as your root partition (or even just an initrd). There are many > >other alternatives depending on network, disk, etc. > > > >And if you've been following this list for a bit you'll know that you > >can't (yet) boot off of the CF adapter on the EPIA MII. > > > >One last word of advice, get a bios savior. > > > >Larry > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linuxbios mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
