Kinda - depends on a few things.
LinuxBIOS has only been designed to boot a machine to linux with the
least amount of legacy rubbish and stuffing around. For these reasons,
linux BIOS is;
a) Very board specific.
b) designed only to boot linux (it will not boot a Windows machine or DOS)
c) supports very little in the way of visual output - there's no/little support
for VGA output.
If you mean that you have a kernel, and need it patched, then -from my
understanding of it all- yes you should be fine (providing your board is
supported) .. and I don't believe you need to patch your kernel. The guys
here have something they call "two kernel monte" whereby the linuxbios
process finishes by loading your production kernel, overtop of itself, and
then executing it (leaving only your kernel in memory).
The biggest drama with booting to a Linux OS on a HDD is that not all of
the boards under LinuxBIOS have their IDE hardware initialized properly
(since quite a few people here run solely from the DoC in the BIOS
socket) -- the upshot of this is that you can have a running multiuser
system in 3seconds, but no harddrive(s) to play with ;-)
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>From: "Florian Echtler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Ian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Why DOC?
>Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 16:56:44 +0200
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> > Because, after the Kernel, you don't get a lot of Linux software into
> > 512Kilobytes :-)
> > (DoC Millenium (32pin) houses 8 Megabytes, FYI)
>
> OK, you convinced me there.. but if I also have a ordinary disk and need
> only a BIOS replacement, I'm set with the LinuxBIOS bootstrap code and
a
> patched kernel?
>
> Yours,
> - --
> Florian Echtler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.matrixindustries.de
> TU Muenchen - Fachschaft MPI - Druck,Skripten,Software
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