On Dec 9, 2007 11:25 PM, Baski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 12:26:21AM -0800, Baski wrote: > > I have a tiny kernel (not linux) and GRUB in a floppy disk. How can > > I make it to boot using linuxbios? > > A few things need to be considered: > > * How does the kernel try to find the system information that is > usually exported by the BIOS in quite old-fashioned ways? > At a minimum, the kernel needs to know how much memory is in the > system. LB does not offer the same methods as a BIOS to learn this. > > * Does the kernel use other BIOS interrupt services? LB does not > offer any. > > * How large is your kernel? > If it can fit with LB in the boot flash (which is between 256kb and > 1MB) you don't need the floppy at all. > The kernel in experiment is very tiny in nascent stage, about 50KB, and has > only one functionality, printing out to serial port in loop. Can I just put > it in the flash instead of FILO? Pl. advise.
Sure. The easiest way is to make your kernel into an elf, then use it as the payload for LinuxBIOS. Myles -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
