Please excuse my off topic question ....
On Thursday, 29. November 2001 13:26, Adam Agnew wrote: > On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Nick French wrote: > > We just plug the compact flash into the IDE and it looks just like a > > harddisk. > > > > Anyway what I was trying to get to is how do we get the kernal of a > > standard > > > install of LINUX without LILO. > > This will solve my problem then as I can flash my existing BIOS with > > LinuxBIOS and then it can load the kernal from a standard Linux disk (CF > > in > > > our case). So I guess we need some IDE reading code and the format of the > > disk to be able to get the Kernel off it. > > > > I guess this is what adam is doing or have I missed something. > > That's the idea. Eric is pushing for a scheme where by we would chain-load > to the first sector of a partition. I agree that's a good idea. But we'd > need to put another bootloader with polled ide and no BIOS dependance How do you place such a bootloader ? As an addition to the BIOS or as an replacement, so that the kernel can do the complete initialisation ? > there before we can do that.. I'll be able to release a bootloader > whereby you give it the path to your kernel first. It's all a matter of > where we shove off the bulk of a bootloader scheme in the long run, and > if they have an ide hard drive than it should be on the ide hard drive. TIA, Franz
