[Fwd: Re: DiskOnChip Questions]

[Michael Robinson]

---The trend seems to be NOT to use DiskOnChip but rather a CF <> IDE 
adapter. Using FILO you can boot from the CF.---

So I'd flash FILO to the BIOS, then it would load the LinuxBIOS kernel 
image, and then the kernel image would do whatever you want LinuxBIOS to 
do, right? Or am I wrong... It says FILO loads a "boot image", whats the 
definition of a "boot image", is it just the kernel?

Thanks,
Michael Robinson
mrobinson at fuzzymuzzle.com
www.fuzzymuzzle.com



Larry Matter wrote:

>>what
>>does the DiskOnChip provide to the LinuxBIOs project that the standard
>>flash chip can't?
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>More than 2 megabits of storage.
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>>My second is that I'm going to be using the VIA EPIA
>>MII motherboard which has a PLCC BIOS, as far as I can tell PLCC
>>DiskOnChips aren't very readily available.  Should I use a DIP to PLCC
>>adapter; how did the other people who used this board do it?
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>The trend seems to be NOT to use DiskOnChip but rather a CF <> IDE
>adapter.  Using FILO you can boot from the CF.
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>>My final
>>question is how do I pick the size of the DiskOnChip.
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>So if you're going to go for the CF <> IDE, then it just needs to be as
>big as your root partition (or even just an initrd).   There are many
>other alternatives depending on network, disk, etc.
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>And if you've been following this list for a bit you'll know that you
>can't (yet) boot off of the CF adapter on the EPIA MII.
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>One last word of advice, get a bios savior.
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>Larry
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