"Frank Eggink (Other Email-Account)" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Sorry to bother you all with these probably stupid questions, but i'm
> very interested in linuxbios.
> I was wondering if i could get some help figuring stuff out.
> I've recently bought a pcchips 810LMR motherboard for test purposes with
> linuxbios (linuxbios supports the sis chipset on this board i believe)
> (i know it's not a very good board, but it's just for testing)
> The mainboard has a 2mb Flash rom chip, can i flash this with the
> appropriate romimage. I haven't got a DOC Millennium(it's hard to get in
> the Netherlands), so i was wondering if i could just flash the chip with
> the romimage ??
The current source code uses DoC only. There are discussions on
integrating
LinuxBIOS with some kind of bootloader (e.g. TIARA).
> What file should i flash, or do i have to have a DOC ?? because when i
> compile linuxbios it generates the files needed for the DOC.
>
> And if i can flash the bios with linuxbios can i then boot another
> kernel from a hd ?
> For instance, turn the pc on, linuxbios starts up and loads a kernel,
> and this kernel starts another kernel(located on a hdd) ?? Is this
> possible ?
You will need DoC (or ate least 512KB flash) for LinuxBIOS to
boot another kernel.
> Can Someone help me with this ?
> I know these are stupid questions but hey i'm new to it.
>
You can start from the LinuxBIOS homepage and mail list archive.
Ollie
