I think the DoC mess is here to stay, there is one potential solution if people are insisting on having DoC, and that is to make up a little board which plugs into a BIOS socket which has both a 256k flash device and a little bit of decode logic for a DoC, as well as a DoC - if anyone is interested in this approach, I could knock together a few prototypes for a couple of $'s, but I have my reservations as to this being a permanent long-term solution for production systems.
Hamish
-----Original Message----- From: linuxbios-admin@clustermatic.org [mailto:linuxbios-admin@clustermatic.org]On Behalf Of Ronald G Minnich Sent: 09 September 2002 04:25 To: linuxbios@clustermatic.org Subject: The DoC problem
Anybody have a good idea in the long term about how to solve the DoC mess.
I really like this sis730 mainboard with DoC. It's neat to come up in busybox and have all the power of linux available even if the disk is not yet loaded with linux. But that won't work with 735 due to more complex chipset setup. So we have to use FLASH. Then we can't have the nice startup with the kernel etc. that we get with DoC.
We need big flash. But we can't just put big flash in the IDE slot -- then we can't have a disk drive!
Are we really stuck with 256K forever? is there some plugin that gives us FLASH AND a DoC?
ron
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