Thanks very much. I have download it.Appreciated your help. Now I can see all over there.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Agnew" agnew@cs.umd.edu To: "Deepak Kotian" dkotian3@vsnl.net Cc: linuxbios@clustermatic.org Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 1:27 AM Subject: Re: Burning BIOS on FLASH ROMS, is the kernel also needs to burnt on it
http://www.missl.cs.umd.edu/~agnew/freebios-snapshot-for-deepak.tgz
On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Adam Agnew wrote:
Oh, and ADLO slows things down a little. mostly because it definitely needs the hard drives to be spun up already, while the linux kernel can
be
tricked into thinking they already are. Same with etherboot. If you want
3
second boot up, booting from IDE is out of the question. The other thing you can try is a DoC Millenium which is a bios chip with 8 megs of storage.
On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Deepak Kotian wrote:
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" agnew@cs.umd.edu To: "Deepak Kotian" dkotian3@vsnl.net Cc: linuxbios@clustermatic.org 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
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