So in my case FILO is booting the actual Linux kernel that you will be
using when you perform tasks on the computer? So if you were using a
DiskOnChip your Linux distribution kernel would be on the actual
DiskOnChip? I was under the impression that the LinuxBIOS kernel was on
the DiskOnChip and the distribution kernel was on a hard drive. Could
you please clarify.
Thanks,
Michael Robinson
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Hendricks David W. wrote:
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
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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
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