On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 18:09, Darren Lissimore wrote: > Good day all, > > I'm looking for advise on a LinuxBIOS setup with a Tyan s2850 > DiskOnChip > system. Here's the deal: > We are currently putting together a network device testing system ( > hardware > & software ). Security of the system itself is of prime importance, as > well as minimizing possible support calls due to hardware failure. > We are investigating a DiskOnChip style system via LinuxBIOS; thus no > Harddisk required. All of the systems would be custom built for each > deployment site, and designed to only function on the hardware that they are > deployed on. > > Questions: > > 1) Has anyone tried a 2.6.10 kernel DiskOnChip style system before? > 2) What size of DiskOnChip system is possible ? I've seen DiskOnChip > Chips > from 8 to 128M in storage size. Would these work? >
Is Tyan 2850 some Opteron mainboard. The you have no way to use the DiskOnChip. The DiskOnChip requires the old-fashion ISA rom interface while the Opteron mainboards use LPC interface. Ollie > Darren > _______________________________________________ > Linuxbios mailing list > Linuxbios@clustermatic.org > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
