Hello,
I read through the various HOWTOs and the FAQ and still have some
questions.
I have a project where I would like to use linuxbios and have the
bios boot from a cdrom (there will not be a hard drive in the
comptuer). Is booting from a cdrom as simple as doing:
commandline root=/dev/hdc1
and having an ext2fs filesystem on the cdrom? Are there any gotchas?
I would really like to have a completely read-only filesystem and no
RAM disk if at all posible. I know this sounds strange, but I am not
the one making up the requirements.
Also, is anyone aware of a way to maintain state across reboots on
a diskless system? I am looking for some type of static RAM card. I
found two cards (one by General Standards) but neither have drivers
for linux. I was considering the /dev/nvram driver, but it stores
only 50 bytes and I need to store around 80 bytes. The other painful
requirment is that data is written out every second so the various
compact flash solutions won't work since they have memory cycle limits
between 100,000 and 300,000 cycles.
Thanks for any help,
Aaron
