On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, SirDibos wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Jon Rabone wrote:
Or if anyone interested, make up a special ROM with kernel etc in it, so
the machine will boot from ROM... Has anyone done this?
You'd need about 512 kB of ROM. Where are you going to put it? Ethercard
boot ROMS are more like 16 kB.
Bugger that. How about 4 megs? And make it an EPROM. stash the
kernel and a basic root fs in there update as necessary with a rom
burner. What would it take to procure a motherboard that supported that?
I think this thread has strayed away from debian-devel material.
However, I've seen ads for rom-disk or DOS-in-ROM cards.
These typically provide floppy-sized ROM (no reason it can't
be more), and emulate a floppy controller. The machine treats
the ROM on the card like a floppy disk -- boots from it, etc.
A minimal system (e.g., the debian resq disk) could fit on one
of these cards, or an arbitraily larger system if more ROM was
provided.
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