Re: [LinuxBIOS] USB floppy boot

[Myles Watson]

> On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 12:26:21AM -0800, Baski wrote:
> > I have a tiny kernel (not linux) and GRUB in a floppy disk. How can
> > I make it to boot using linuxbios?
>
> A few things need to be considered:
> How does the kernel try to find the system information that is
> usually exported by the BIOS in quite old-fashioned ways?
> At a minimum, the kernel needs to know how much memory is in the
> system. LB does not offer the same methods as a BIOS to learn this.
> Does the kernel use other BIOS interrupt services? LB does not
> offer any.

You could try ADLO (The Bochs emulator's BIOS as a LinuxBIOS payload) to
supply these services.  The most recent BIOS from Bochs (not the one in the
LinuxBIOS tree) has some timing fixes that allow it to work in real
hardware.

Myles