via epia, pchips 787cl+
Alexander Amelkin
spirit at reactor.ru
Wed Feb 19 12:33:01 CET 2003
Hello Eric,
Wednesday, February 19, 2003, 4:32:39 AM, you wrote:
EWB> Alexander Amelkin <spirit at reactor.ru> writes:
>> Hello!
>>
>> The linuxbios status comments for via epia say "etherboot" only.
>> Does that mean that epia won't be able to boot from a local ide hard
>> drive?
EWB> Nope, etherboot supports booting from the local ide hard drive,
EWB> at least as well as the native LinuxBIOS IDE code does.
Cool! Can you tell me how critical that "problem with irq routing
table" is on VIA EPIA?
>> Are there any plans to implement the support for
>> lilo/whatever booting from the hard drive on epia?
EWB> Things are gradually improving. Those of us who think a development
EWB> machines has a 1000 motherboards don't always see the point in booting
EWB> off a local hard drive :)
I didn't understand what you meant, but the fact that etherboot
supports booting from a local hard disk is very good.
With best regards,
Alexander mailto:spirit at reactor.ru
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