Hi Terry, This was actually discussed just yesturday as well, so in the interest of not covering the subject again so soon... Please see the thread starting with:
---- From: Deepak Kotian dkotian3@vsnl.net To: linuxbios@clustermatic.org Subject: Burning BIOS on FLASH ROMS, is the kernel also needs to burnt on it ---
For three other options for booting from hard disk. Your actually looking at the fourth option, which i forgot earlier. Also keep in mind that using a flash disk, like perhaps a compact flash card on an ide adaptor (cwlinux.com sells such a beast) you can keep your lightning fast boot up speeds!
If you don't want to put your kernel image on the beginning sectors of your hard disk, your easiest option is probably etherboot 5.0.6 + the polled ide patch.
- Adam Agnew
On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Terry B. Chen wrote:
Dear all: I decide to elf_boot use BOOT_IDE, because the rom is too small to settle a big kernel that support. Can some one tell me the usage of the options such as ONE_TRACK and how to put the elf to hard disk, I think it must be dangerous, it seem to read the sector directly. Someone can teach me a little?
Best regards Terry chen