LinuxBIOS can boot off a fallback image on the ROM in case the primary image fails.
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 14:09:54 +1000 Adam Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've a Gigabyte GA-7NNXP with nForce II Chipset, and a BIOS with a > > > size of 512 KB. > > > nvidia chipset, right? no chance. nvidia has no wish to help. > > That's a shame - I was thinking of getting a Gigabyte/nVidia board > because Gigabyte now appear to have true dual BIOS chips on their > boards. If it fails to boot from one chip it automatically switches > to the other, you can reflash one chip from the other or from a floppy > in the default BIOS setup, etc. it looks like it'd be a very handy > board to use for testing - put LinuxBIOS in the main chip and have the > default BIOS as backup. Then you can boot off the backup in case of a > failed flash attempt and reflash LinuxBIOS into the main chip. > > Looks like Gigabyte are introducing it on all their boards though, > which is a good sign. > > Cheers, > Adam. > > _______________________________________________ > Linuxbios mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios