GNUOrder wrote: > On Tuesday 12 March 2002 12:46, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > >>On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Jan Kok wrote: >> >>>I think what Alessio is asking is: does he have to use a DoC, or can he >>>put linuxbios into a "normal" (typically 256KByte) flash. >>> >>>The answer is, you can't fit linuxbios into 256KBytes. You can easily >>>put it into an 8MByte DoC. >>> >>yes you can. But you can't fit a linux kernel in with it. You can fit >>etherboot however. >> >>ron >> > > Is there a payload for booting the kernel off IDE that will fit in 256KBytes? > I thought linuxbios itself wasn't able to fit in that tight of space and > still be able to boot a kernel. > > GO > >
Adam Agnew once posted a patched version of etherboot which is capable to load kernel from an ext2fs on IDE. The only problem is that the IDE code which comes for TIARA project is no 100% correct. Ollie
