Francis Reader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> WIth the limitations of a 256k Flash part on the motherboards we are using,
> just a possibility but could linuxbios initialise the system just enough to
> then execute
> Lilo from flash?
>
> We will be booting our systems, using the following mechanism:
>
> Boot a bios replacement, which then runs a lean (mean) kernel. We require no
> more functionality
> of a linux kernel, as to replace the original bios. We then boot another
> kernel using 2kernelmonte.
>
> We then can control and upgrade kernels very easily with no later thought of
> flashing the eeprom.
>
> So unless anyone, has actually built and ran a kernel < 256k from linuxbios?
> Has anyone tried
> executing lilo from liluxbios?
>
> Just a thought, we are not overly concerned with the startup time, so we
> could potentialy use
> linuxbios to boot lilo from the disk?
You can't use lilo it uses BIOS calls. So you need something that can
directly drive the hardware. It doesn't have to be a linux kernel but
it should be something.
It might be possible to put a minimal floppy or harddrive driver
in linuxbios to and read a kernel from there. Or it might be possible
to use something like the linux-lite kernel (i.e. linux-1.0.9 +
patches to minimize it's size) that actually fits in 128K compressed.
I would like to see this problem solved as well.
Eric
