I see that flash_rom has the capability to read/write AMD AM-29F040B which is a 512Kbyte device and I've been able to read and write it from my motherboard (EPIA MII6000E). I was wondering if : I can use the increased flash size to do anithing usefull ? Could it be possible to use the extra space to have multiple payloads and have a choice as to which one to use ? (giving you the possibility to boot from disk, cdrom,floppy and onboard CF adapter maybe)
A few years ago I got etherboot working from the eprom on a NIC, allowiing me to remove the nic and get the machine to do normal boot with the original bios, would it be possible to do the same thing with linuxBIOS ? this would let me do some attempts without having to buy any bios savior and whitout having to replace the flash in a really unconfortable position.
Regards David Rao
if you can get a tiny linux in 400K or so, you could boot linux from flash. I would LOVE to see this happen.
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