On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Justin Cormack wrote: > > Putting Lilo and or ECOS on the Linuxbios chip and a=20 > > kernel image, root and usr files system on CF would > > make for very quick booting, cheap cluster nodes ;) > > Alternately - Linuxbios could boot the CF directly as it > > behaves as a HD in ATA mode.
Make sure you're not recording system logs on it, though... Writing system logs to a flash device strikes me as a bad idea. > this is becoming a FAQ! > You dont need linuxbios to boot off CF, so its not really a linuxbios issue. I think what he (and, for that matter, I) am interested in is getting a node (consisting of off-the-shelf x86 parts) booted really, really quickly. Ideally, faster than the usual "wait for the bios, wait for lilo, wait for ..." process. In a perfect world, something in the X seconds range for "power-button-to-command-prompt", where "X" is a number less than 10. Which would be where LinuxBios comes in... :)
