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[Antony Stone]

On Thursday 09 January 2003 4:43 pm, Richard A. Smith wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 23:54:14 +0000, Antony Stone wrote:
> > If you have a flash chip big enough fro a kernel I don't think it'll fit
> > into the normal 32 pin socket used by 2 mbit BIOS chips.
>
> A 29F040b is a 4 m-bit (512k) part and is a std jdec 32 pin pacakge.
> I have managed to get a bios (commercial) + kernel in that.  No root
> disk though.  Had to use a 2nd chip for that. (It was a custom board)

How did you get a kernel into <512kbytes?   What version did you start from?

Antony.

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