Question!
How do you boot off a smart media device - since the kernel is not yet
present and no modules extensions are available. It seems to me that the
BIOS of the computer would have to support this device in order to boot.
The page you pointed to says you are not allowed to write to the device with
something like lilo - and presumably syslinux.
I am sure you could boot off a standard 1.44 floppy and then change and
mount the new media.
Billy Jacobs wrote:
> Hi--
>
> I was looking into moving from a diskette based Eiger router to a solid
> state system. The compact flash solution seems like its the only
> "mainstream" method of doing this, going by what I have read in the
> various LRP docs.. I would like to use SmartMedia, however, and have
> been looking into how this could be accomplished.
>
> I have found a device called a FlashPath, which is basically an adapter
> which allows you to put the SmartMedia card into the diskette drive,
> and access it as /dev/fd0. SmartDisk has a beta release linux driver
> for the FlashPath which will work with any 2.2 and later based kernel.
> Info can be found via PDF file at:
>
> http://www.smartdisk.com/Downloads/Software/LinuxInstallandUserGuide.pdf
>
> I was wondering if anyone has compiled this flashpath.o driver for LRP,
> and if so, where I could find it. I assume this would be compiled as a
> loadable module, therefore no kernel changes would be needed.
>
> Besides the few minor shortcomings of using this product (sleep mode on
> disk, not RO filesystem), I think there could be some very good
> benefits to using this device.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Billy
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