Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Bari Ari wrote:
>
> > The majority of LinuxBIOS apps. seem to be for the highly religious
> > Beowulf community that only use OTS commodity motherboards.
>
> well, not so sure from this end. There just isn't much else available
> right now that is as cost effective. But I have my hopes, Bari :-)
>
> One of the reasons I think I want to leave linux in the flash as opposed
> to something small and tight like tiara is that USB and other systems are
> so darn complicated ... not to mention handling xfs or reiserfs or jfs as
> the root file system.
Ron that sounds reasonable, and it is certainly an option. At least
we know enough not to play the game of getting the linux drivers
to run outside the linux kernel.
The more I think about it, I keep thinking we could use something
very small, and limited for the fail safe booting case. So you misflash
your linux kernel you still have a chance to recover.
Because the one thing you will see is the linux kernel in the flash,
in a general purpose machine updated when you put in interesting hardware
(so you get the drivers for that new hardware). And if you are updating
your kernel based bootloader you have the chance to occasionally mess up
your flash.
Eric
