The reason I asked the question about DOM verse DOC is price and convenience..
CompactFlash is now very cheap and the following link takes you to PC Engines that do a IDE to CF adapter. http://www.pcengines.com/testordr.htm/hn Could not find anyone else who does one. It would be nice to have a compact flash floppy drive so that I could update my flash without opening the box. I could also just send customers a new CF. I see from the list that some people say you can use a 1 megabyte flash part and some say a 512k part. Are the sizes the same for the different chip formats? And finally does anyone know if you can buy a board without a legacy BIOS. I guess what it comes down too is what is the cheapest solution possible. Just a few thoughts Nick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ronald G Minnich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 4:19 AM Subject: Re: K7+sis730 combo+32DIP > On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Adam Agnew wrote: > > > 2) Somewhere in that ext2 code or in the polled ide code is a bug. This > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > This is exactly the reason that, int the long term, I want Linux as my > bootloader. Boot loaders are old technology, at least 30 years old. This > kind of problem always seems to crop up sooner or later with boot loaders. > > What happened with Sun is a good example. On the original Sun there was a > simple bootloader. At some point the bootloader could understand the file > system. Then you basically had two file system implementations -- one in > bootloader, one in kernel. At some point, the craziness reached a cycle: > the bootloader was built by ripping bits of kernel source over into the > bootloader tree -- bits of NFS, bits of file system, other stuff. Ouch! > > We're still paying the price for this type of thing. On some Alphas, the > BIOS can only boot from BSD partitions. You can't have other partition > types for the boot partition! > > I am really impressed at all the things the various bootloaders can do, > with ext2, ide drivers, net drivers, etc., etc. > > But here's a neat bootloader we have now: it boots over Myrinet. It will > soon boot over SCI. It boots from ext3, reiserfs, and xfs file systems. It > can use IP multicast to load kernels and initrds. > > All this stuff works with this bootloader. No other bootloader can equal > this bootloader in capability. The neat bootloader is 'Linux'. I > understand the reasons for doing other bootloaders. But, it also is a > shame that we have to do them at all. They're always going to be way > behind what is possible with Linux as the bootloader. > > > Altogether, this is ext2fs code, polled ide code, then everything that > > comes with etherboot when you compile for the sis900. It weighs in at > > around 24k this way. Not too shaby.. > > Good stuff. Please don't take what I am saying as a criticism in any way. > > Thanks > > ron > >
