Hello Eric,
Wednesday, February 19, 2003, 4:32:39 AM, you wrote:
EWB> Alexander Amelkin spirit@reactor.ru writes:
Hello!
The linuxbios status comments for via epia say "etherboot" only. Does that mean that epia won't be able to boot from a local ide hard drive?
EWB> Nope, etherboot supports booting from the local ide hard drive, EWB> at least as well as the native LinuxBIOS IDE code does.
Cool! Can you tell me how critical that "problem with irq routing table" is on VIA EPIA?
Are there any plans to implement the support for lilo/whatever booting from the hard drive on epia?
EWB> Things are gradually improving. Those of us who think a development EWB> machines has a 1000 motherboards don't always see the point in booting EWB> off a local hard drive :)
I didn't understand what you meant, but the fact that etherboot supports booting from a local hard disk is very good.
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