on technical note, it *is* possible to do this way. just use:
linuxbios+linux kernel (built in pcmcia support)+kexec
in this way you can use linux kernel to boot off whatever linux supports.
of course your initial boot medium must be big enough to support linuxbios+linux kernel+kexec.
... but as I (and the other Adam) said before CF is *is* an ATA device.. so just get CF<=>ATA adapter and connect it to it. that's it..
On Thu, 1 May 2003, Adam Agnew wrote:
No plans that I know of to add PCMCIA support. And if I may make a recommendation, why not get a compact flash on ide adapter? Our friends at cwlinux.com still sell such a beast i believe. And plenty of us on the list use this solution.
- Adam Agnew
On Thu, 1 May 2003 tcc_linuxbios@thinkthink.com wrote:
The reason I'm interested in linuxbios is that I'd like to create aself-contained (not remote booted) no-moving-parts system for ruggetized use.
I'd be open to a better idea - but so far I'm thinking of puttingan OpenBSD fs on a pcmcia ATA flash card and access it through one of those PCI<->pcmcia cards. This should make for a neat off-the-shelf system for firewalls, gateways, etc. Most bios's don't support pcmcia because most mb's don't have pcmcia hw... Therefore my linuxbios interest. Has anyone considered putting in PCMCIA support? A grep of sources and mail archive comes up blank, except for booting off of CF. CF would work but I suspect I have to buy a special (read expensive) mb that has CF support.
Am I getting myself into a project? :) tom.c
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