Francis Reader wrote:
E14039190D41D4118B7B00508BC292DB4A62B4@IMGSERV04">WIth the limitations of a 256k Flash part on the motherboards we are using,
just a possibility but could linuxbios initialise the system just enough to
then execute
Lilo from flash?
We will be booting our systems, using the following mechanism:
Boot a bios replacement, which then runs a lean (mean) kernel. We require no
more functionality
of a linux kernel, as to replace the original bios. We then boot another
kernel using 2kernelmonte.
We then can control and upgrade kernels very easily with no later thought of
flashing the eeprom.
So unless anyone, has actually built and ran a kernel < 256k from linuxbios?
Has anyone tried
executing lilo from liluxbios?
Just a thought, we are not overly concerned with the startup time, so we
could potentialy use
linuxbios to boot lilo from the disk?
Has anyone looked at http://www.elinos.com/
they have ROLO that is suppose to fit in under 256K of ROM and boot Linux off a drive or flash.
eCos will fit in under 256K. I've seen it chopped down to about 3k for some
very small apps on simpler platforms. It's not a LinuxBIOS solution but it
could be made to jump to a Linux kernel on your drive.
Take a look at RedBoot by Red Hat http://www.redhat.com/embedded/technologies/ecos/faq.html
Bari
