On Wed, 7 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Can LinuxBIOS be used for a real BIOS chip rather than DOC? I have
> only 256K or BIOS memory, so I don't think I can fit the whole kernel
> into the cheip.
you're no longer using a winfast 6300? the 6300 has 512KB.
> What I'd like to do is use linux bios to instead of the usual BIOS and
> boot quickly to LILO on hda. This should shave around 25 seconds off
> the boot time.
LILO uses BIOS calls, I think. That won't work well. You could put a
really tiny linux kernel in the flash part that two-kernel-monte (or
LOBOS, or exec_kernel) boots the kernel off of HDA. That was our plan
before DOC came along. We've not really tried non-DOC recently since the
DOC is so superior. But we used to boot out of FLASH on that mainboard.
What's the problem with DOC? just wondering.
ron
