are there problems with this email? - what is a disc on chip? - beginner's question
Antony Stone
Antony at Soft-Solutions.co.uk
Thu Jan 9 12:02:00 CET 2003
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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