Hi, I am have been lurking for awhile.
Could this goal be accomplished by executing staticly linked lilo/grub/etc using the elf code? Clark On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 05:00:21PM -0700, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Ian wrote: > > > > > What, you can't even boot a RedHat CD from LinuxBIOS? > > not at present. I brought this question up a long time ago -- how should > we do this type of thing. There's no problem doing it, there's just the > question of the sequence of things you should do to make it go. > > I had basically hoped that 1Mbyte flash would be the rule by now; in that > case it is trivial, put a big linux in there, and a ram disk, and put a > little /sbin/init on the ram disk that basically asks you where your root > is and where your kernel is. Trivial. > > But with these damned 256KB flash parts, things are a lot harder. And I'm > unsure what the right thing to do is. I'm open to good ideas though. > > One possibility is to boot linux 1.0 out of flash and than have linux boot > something. > > ron > -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.
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