<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><peter@stuge.se><br>Hello,<br><br>On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 12:26:21AM -0800, Baski wrote:<br>> I have a tiny kernel (not linux) and GRUB in a floppy disk. How can<br>> I make it to boot using linuxbios?<br><br>A few things need to be considered:<br><br>* How does the kernel try to find the system information that is<br> usually exported by the BIOS in quite old-fashioned ways?<br> At a minimum, the kernel needs to know how much memory is in the<br> system. LB does not offer the same methods as a BIOS to learn this.<br><br>* Does the kernel use other BIOS interrupt services? LB does not<br> offer any.<br><br>* How large is your kernel?<br> If it can fit with LB in the boot flash (which is between 256kb and<br> 1MB) you don't need the floppy at all.<br></peter@stuge.se></blockquote>The kernel in experiment is very tiny in nascent stage, about 50KB,
and has<br>only one functionality, printing out to serial port in loop. Can I just put it in the flash instead of FILO? Pl. advise.<br>TIA <br>of FILO<br><p>
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