markw wrote: > Ok, talking to guys on IRC and they said to post up here. I've been > challenged to see if I can come up with a system that boots in sub 10 > seconds to a command prompt with networking. I'm sitting on a few Kino > LX800 boards that we use for other projects, but I'm willing to > sacrifice one for this.
I would bet you can achieve that goal with that board. > The board has sata onboard using an ALI M5281 controller. It also uses > the geode CS5536 ide controller, so the sata stuff may not be an issue. A Compactflash card on the IDE interface is you best bet for easy speed. > I'd like to to LB and kernel in flash, but if the hardware won't suppor > a 16mbit flash, then I'll do lb/filo and boot from CF over the standard > ide channel. The board currently has a 49fl004 socketed flash. Plan on > using a stripped down debian install, since that's the only one I can > reliably shrink. The 5536 on that board will support up to a 256MB boot ROM, and 2MB LPC ROMs are pretty accessible now. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
