[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > You know that you can flash LinuxBIOS and Kernel together. > You can use kernel as bootloader or use itself as a real kernel. > That's the original idea of LinuxBIOS as far as I know.
Right. But having been around this block a couple of times it is nice to have something less massive then a kernel in your flash. But for all of the difficult cases a kernel is the right solution. > Mothern mothoerboard comes with PLCC type of flash and is connected to FWH. > While the flash comes with mainboard is usually 256KB, you can replace > it with bigger one up to 1MB ( 1MB is the limit of FWH but It is enough for > kernel) . The difference is that devices running on the straight ISA bus have one pin per address bit. And in 32 pin PLCC or 32 pin DIP they have a maximum capacity of 512KiB. Devices on the LPC bus like intels firmware hub clock over their address bits so can be as big as you can make them. The capacities commonly available for ISA solutions are: 256KiB and 512KiB. Intel firmware hub is only made in capacities of: 512KiB and 1024KiB. > > In my case, I use matsonic ms7057c ( I switched from ga-6oxe. ), It also > comes > with 256KB flash but I replaced it with 512KB one. Then I flahsed kernel > with ide > driver and I can boot from rootfilesystem on hdd ( 32MB DOM ). That is certainly a good solution, to this problem. The only challenge I see is that it is tricky get a fully featured kernel in 512KiB. Though with modules you can go a long ways. Eric
