[LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS+FILO hangs on qemu

Ronald G Minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Tue Sep 5 15:14:13 CEST 2006


Ed Swierk wrote:
> On 9/4/06, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>your problem right now is with filo. Can you try an older one? OR, better
>>yet: if you want to work with me and make linux your boot loader, a la OLPC,
>>that would be better: no filo at all! (not that I don't like FILO, it's
>>wonderful, but Linux as a boot-loader is wonderful-er).
> 
> 
> Figures, the only part I didn't try downgrading is filo :-)
> 
> I would love to use Linux as my boot loader, but is it possible to
> cram LinuxBIOS plus a kernel and initrd into a puny 256 kByte EEPROM?
> 
> --Ed
> 

no, but this is qemu ... can't you grow qemu emulated flash?

ron




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