Thanks! Let me turn the CMOS question around though. If an embedded board does have a battery, is it possible that it's just for the TOD clock and not CMOS? In other words, if an unknown board has a battery, how can I positively confirm the existence of the CMOS? I've got two revisions of the same board, one with battery and one without. They're Winterminal boards, so they don't necessarily need CMOS settings.
thanks, Jonathan ----- Original Message ---- From: Stefan Reinauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jonathan Sturges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: LinuxBIOS mailing list <linuxbios@linuxbios.org> Sent: Saturday, October 6, 2007 1:18:27 PM Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Normal vs. fallback images and CMOS * Jonathan Sturges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071006 18:04]: > Question. If an embedded board has no battery backup, it should have > no (usable) CMOS. Therefore, is a "Normal" image required on such a > system? My understanding is that CMOS settings are required to force > the Fallback image to boot, except in cases of an missing or corrupt > Normal image. It's rather the other way around. CMOS allows the Normal image to be booted. So without CMOS you always boot the Fallback image. Which is good, because Fallback uses the hardcoded default values for all otherwise CMOS drives variables. So just drop the Normal image. Stefan -- coresystems GmbH • Brahmsstr. 16 • D-79104 Freiburg i. Br. Tel.: +49 761 7668825 • Fax: +49 761 7664613 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] • http://www.coresystems.de/ Registergericht: Amtsgericht Freiburg • HRB 7656 Geschäftsführer: Stefan Reinauer • Ust-IdNr.: DE245674866 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos & more. http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios