On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 12:26 +0100, Seb James wrote: > I note from various messages around 2000/2001 that there used to be no > DiskOnChip modules in a PLCC32 package. I also read that basically the > M-Systems DoC Millenium chip was the only DoC supported by linuxBIOS > (was it the only one available?) > > Does anyone know of a part available today that would replace a PLCC32 > bios chip as a 4 or 8 MByte DiskOnChip device? >
The use of DoC is depreciated. It is not supported in V2 anymore. > I see also that the Via Epia has been set up with LinuxBIOS and > etherboot on a 256 KByte bios. Has anyone yet added support for storing > the Linux kernel on a flash DOM on the IDE bus and using LinuxBIOS to > boot from that? I know that it wasn't the original intention of the > project (and that Ron didn't want to do it in 2000/2001), but just > curious if that support was ever added. > We do that for EPIA all the time. Use filo as payload to load kernel on compact flash. > The reason for the questions is that I'm stuck with a PLCC socket in my > Geode based mainboard and I can't network boot. My project will really > be enhanced by using a DoC in the existing BIOS socket, but failing that > I'd still like to use a free software bios and boot from the IDE device. > Don't use DoC. Just use the CF on IDE. > Perhaps I'm better off looking at U-Boot or OpenBIOS? However, I like > the fact that LinuxBIOS switches straight into full speed 32 bit mode > and gets everything done so quickly! > You don't have to switch to anything else. > Ok, enough rambling. > > Seb > -- Li-Ta Lo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Los Alamos National Lab _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
