On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Antony Stone wrote: > Because they do not have a large enough capacity. Standard BIOS chips are > 2megabits (= 32 kilobytes), which is not neough to hold a Linux kernel.
no 2 megabits is 256 kbytes. Still not enough for a kernel. Plenty for etherboot however. > You can program a Flash Rom chip on your motherboard - no external programmer > needed - that's how you upgrade the BIOS even if you're not doing anything > with LinuxBIOS. my flash programmer has been on a shelf for two years now. ron _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

