Re: Burning BIOS on FLASH ROMS, is the kernel also needs to burnt on it

[Deepak Kotian]

Thanks for the quick response.

If I use ADLO, will the machine boot up really fast, would there be
performance
degradation because of this. My main intention is to improve the startup
time to around
2/3 seconds.

About ADLO, I could not see it in the utils folder in the linuxbios source I
have.
Can the cvs snapshot be updated please. I do not have access to LINUX box as
of now.

Regards
Deepak

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Agnew" 
To: "Deepak Kotian" 
Cc: 
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 12:37 AM
Subject: Re: Burning BIOS on FLASH ROMS, is the kernel also needs to burnt
on it
> 3 ways.
> Etherboot 5.0.6 with polled ide patch:
>
> download etherboot-5.0.6 and see http://www.missl.cs.umd.edu/~agnew/ for
> the patch.
> Etherboot development series:
>
> download etherboot-5.1.7
> ADLO
>
> see freebios/utils/ADLO/ from the linuxbios cvs. (this one is the most
> work, but wont require you to modify your kernel when you're done)
> Adam Agnew
>
> On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Deepak Kotian wrote:
> > HI,
> > Looking at the burn mtd script, it seems that the linux kernel image

also needs
> > to be burnt on the BIOS flash along with linuxbios.In this case, if

the customized kernel
> > image is around 900KB  ,then it may be difficult to fit it on the

FLASH ROMS which is
> > usually 2-4MBit.
> > Is there a way to boot it from IDE device itself instead of the

above process.
> > Could some please clarify on this.
> >
> > Thanks and Regards
> > Deepak