Floppy drives and Linux BIOS

[Gregg C Levine]

Hello again from Gregg C Levine
To be honest Adam, the thought that I brought up earlier today, wasn't
well presented, but you did answer it accurately. My big problem as
near as I can tell, is that the currently available versions of their
floppy based RTL are older kernels, and they have no plans to update
it. I think your suggestion of using the ADLO arrangement is what I am
looking for. But I am looking for suggestions from the group.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: linuxbios-admin at clustermatic.org [mailto:linuxbios-
> admin at clustermatic.org] On Behalf Of Adam Agnew
> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 3:19 AM
> To: Gregg C Levine
> Cc: Linuxbios
> Subject: Re: Floppy drives and Linux BIOS
> 
> 
> I'm confused. What's your question? If you could use the same floppy
image
> on a series of machines, with some running their normal bios and at
least
> one running linuxbios?
> 
> If that is your question, then I would say yes. If you make the
kernel
> image on the floppy with linuxbios support. And if you can't change
the
> kernel image, then you could use ADLO/Bochs to implement the same
BIOS
> services that you would have on a commercial BIOS.
> 
> - Adam Agnew
> 
> On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Gregg C Levine wrote:
> 
> > Hello from Gregg C Levine
> > Here's a question that's definitely going to keep me up nights.
Can a
> > properly configured and working Linux BIOS image, boot something
else
> > via the floppy drive, in this case a normal 3.5 drive setup as the
A
> > drive?
> >
> > Well at least from the point of view of the motherboard with its
> > original BIOS, it would be setup as the A drive. Basically our
friends
> > at FSMLabs market the RTLinux kits. They also make available the
same
> > thing under the GPL license, I still haven't figured if there is a
> > loss of functionality between the two. At some point they were
working
> > on a floppy drive sized version of the product.
> >
> > Before committing to having a working Linux BIOS image based on
it,
> > what I am leaning towards is having the chosen image boot the
floppy
> > drive sized version, and then facilitate whatever tests I, (or my
> > staff), have in mind. Probably between two or more machines, with
one
> > of them being the lucky one with the working Linux BIOS image on
it,
> > in place of the commodity BIOS. I suspect they all would need to
be
> > the same machine for this to work. And of course the company
> > unofficially tells me that they have actually discontinued work on
> > this floppy drive sized version of their product. So far, I can't
seem
> > to get them to tell me why.
> > -------------------
> > Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon at worldnet.att.net
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