Franz Reinhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wednesday, 5. September 2001 01:50, you wrote:
> > "John P. Looney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 09:13:28AM -0600, Ronald G Minnich mentioned:
> > > > On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, John P. Looney wrote:
>
> > > It's a socketed BIOS, which is why I'd like a eeprom programmer for it,
> > > so that if I do have a dead board, I can rip the PROM out & flash it with
> > > a standard BIOS etc.
> >
> > If the board supports flashing from the board you can have two BIOS chips,
> > one with the original BIOS and with for development of linuxBIOS and swap
> > them.
> >
>
> How can this be done ? AFAIK, to flash a second BIOS chip you have to remove
> the first one. The result is that you can't boot any more ...
In practice most socketed flash chips are hot swap. It is a little touchy
but it works fine at least for development.
Eric
