Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 6 May 2003 08:28:17 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <> | Subject | Re: about bios |
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Hello Adam ,
On Mon, 5 May 2003, Adam Sulmicki wrote: > 'was working'? The project is alive and well. > It is much more than just embedded systems. In fact with recent addition > of legacy bios support we are able to boot other operating systems (BSD, > Win, etc). Being able to boot Windows provides easy migration patch to > Linux :-) > By the way. Yes you can burn the linux kernel into flash (together with > linuxBIOS) and boot it this way. But given that many motherboards limit > your flash size to 256KiB you probably want to put the kernel on the > CompactFlash over ide nevertheless. Interestingly enough if not this size > limit we might have ended up using Linux Kernel as hardware initalizator > to some degree. Thank you for the update . I had been to the site every so often looking for updates to the chipsets known to be usable . Just do not have a system I can spare if I foobar the flash .
> <shameless plug> > In fact we are presenting a paper on LinuxBIOS booting other operating > systems this summer during Usenix 03. > </shameless plug> I am hoping that after the usenix conferences there will be a URL for the rest of us to view this paper ? Tnx , JimL
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