Good day all, My thanks to all those who responded with information and suggestions. I have forwarded on all the information that I received to the 2 people on the project responsible for hardware selection and specification.
Darren On March 15, 2005 07:54 am, Li-Ta Lo wrote: > 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
