> I'll be able to release a bootloader > whereby you give it the path to your kernel first.
Any idea of when this will be available its just what we are looking for in the short term. Cheers Nick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Agnew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Nick French" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Preston L. Bannister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 12:26 PM Subject: Re: K7+sis730 combo+32DIP > > > 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 > 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. > > >
