Burning BIOS on FLASH ROMS, is the kernel also needs to burnt on it

[Adam Agnew]

You don't want to *touch* that cvs snapshot its really old. give me a few
minutes and i'll send you an email with where you can download a new
tarbell from today.


On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Deepak Kotian wrote:

>
> Thanks for the quick response.
>
>
> If I use ADLO, will the machine boot up really fast, would there be
> performance
> degradation because of this. My main intention is to improve the startup
> time to around
> 2/3 seconds.
>
> About ADLO, I could not see it in the utils folder in the linuxbios source I
> have.
> Can the cvs snapshot be updated please. I do not have access to LINUX box as
> of now.
>
> Regards
> Deepak
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adam Agnew" <agnew at cs.umd.edu>
> To: "Deepak Kotian" <dkotian3 at vsnl.net>
> Cc: <linuxbios at clustermatic.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 12:37 AM
> Subject: Re: Burning BIOS on FLASH ROMS, is the kernel also needs to burnt
> on it
>
>
> > 3 ways.
> >
> > 1. Etherboot 5.0.6 with polled ide patch:
> > download etherboot-5.0.6 and see http://www.missl.cs.umd.edu/~agnew/ for
> > the patch.
> >
> > 2. Etherboot development series:
> > download etherboot-5.1.7
> >
> > 3. ADLO
> > see freebios/utils/ADLO/ from the linuxbios cvs. (this one is the most
> > work, but wont require you to modify your kernel when you're done)
> >
> > - Adam Agnew
> >
> > On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Deepak Kotian wrote:
> >
> > > HI,
> > >
> > >     Looking at the burn mtd script, it seems that the linux kernel image
> also needs
> > >     to be burnt on the BIOS flash along with linuxbios.In this case, if
> the customized kernel
> > >     image is around 900KB  ,then it may be difficult to fit it on the
> FLASH ROMS which is
> > >     usually 2-4MBit.
> > >     Is there a way to boot it from IDE device itself instead of the
> above process.
> > >
> > >     Could some please clarify on this.
> > >
> > > Thanks and Regards
> > > Deepak
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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