Will this work ??

[David Hendricks]

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 <a.nielsen at optushome.com.au> 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.
> 
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