Hello from Gregg C Levine Here's a question that's definitely going to keep me up nights. Can a properly configured and working Linux BIOS image, boot something else via the floppy drive, in this case a normal 3.5 drive setup as the A drive?
Well at least from the point of view of the motherboard with its original BIOS, it would be setup as the A drive. Basically our friends at FSMLabs market the RTLinux kits. They also make available the same thing under the GPL license, I still haven't figured if there is a loss of functionality between the two. At some point they were working on a floppy drive sized version of the product.
Before committing to having a working Linux BIOS image based on it, what I am leaning towards is having the chosen image boot the floppy drive sized version, and then facilitate whatever tests I, (or my staff), have in mind. Probably between two or more machines, with one of them being the lucky one with the working Linux BIOS image on it, in place of the commodity BIOS. I suspect they all would need to be the same machine for this to work. And of course the company unofficially tells me that they have actually discontinued work on this floppy drive sized version of their product. So far, I can't seem to get them to tell me why. ------------------- Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon@worldnet.att.net ------------------------------------------------------------ "The Force will be with you...Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi "Use the Force, Luke." Obi-Wan Kenobi (This company dedicates this E-Mail to General Obi-Wan Kenobi ) (This company dedicates this E-Mail to Master Yoda )
I'm confused. What's your question? If you could use the same floppy image on a series of machines, with some running their normal bios and at least one running linuxbios?
If that is your question, then I would say yes. If you make the kernel image on the floppy with linuxbios support. And if you can't change the kernel image, then you could use ADLO/Bochs to implement the same BIOS services that you would have on a commercial BIOS.
- Adam Agnew
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Gregg C Levine wrote:
Hello from Gregg C Levine Here's a question that's definitely going to keep me up nights. Can a properly configured and working Linux BIOS image, boot something else via the floppy drive, in this case a normal 3.5 drive setup as the A drive?
Well at least from the point of view of the motherboard with its original BIOS, it would be setup as the A drive. Basically our friends at FSMLabs market the RTLinux kits. They also make available the same thing under the GPL license, I still haven't figured if there is a loss of functionality between the two. At some point they were working on a floppy drive sized version of the product.
Before committing to having a working Linux BIOS image based on it, what I am leaning towards is having the chosen image boot the floppy drive sized version, and then facilitate whatever tests I, (or my staff), have in mind. Probably between two or more machines, with one of them being the lucky one with the working Linux BIOS image on it, in place of the commodity BIOS. I suspect they all would need to be the same machine for this to work. And of course the company unofficially tells me that they have actually discontinued work on this floppy drive sized version of their product. So far, I can't seem to get them to tell me why.
Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon@worldnet.att.net
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Hello again from Gregg C Levine To be honest Adam, the thought that I brought up earlier today, wasn't well presented, but you did answer it accurately. My big problem as near as I can tell, is that the currently available versions of their floppy based RTL are older kernels, and they have no plans to update it. I think your suggestion of using the ADLO arrangement is what I am looking for. But I am looking for suggestions from the group. ------------------- Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon@worldnet.att.net ------------------------------------------------------------ "The Force will be with you...Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi "Use the Force, Luke." Obi-Wan Kenobi (This company dedicates this E-Mail to General Obi-Wan Kenobi ) (This company dedicates this E-Mail to Master Yoda )
-----Original Message----- From: linuxbios-admin@clustermatic.org [mailto:linuxbios- admin@clustermatic.org] On Behalf Of Adam Agnew Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 3:19 AM To: Gregg C Levine Cc: Linuxbios Subject: Re: Floppy drives and Linux BIOS
I'm confused. What's your question? If you could use the same floppy
image
on a series of machines, with some running their normal bios and at
least
one running linuxbios?
If that is your question, then I would say yes. If you make the
kernel
image on the floppy with linuxbios support. And if you can't change
the
kernel image, then you could use ADLO/Bochs to implement the same
BIOS
services that you would have on a commercial BIOS.
- Adam Agnew
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Gregg C Levine wrote:
Hello from Gregg C Levine Here's a question that's definitely going to keep me up nights.
Can a
properly configured and working Linux BIOS image, boot something
else
via the floppy drive, in this case a normal 3.5 drive setup as the
A
drive?
Well at least from the point of view of the motherboard with its original BIOS, it would be setup as the A drive. Basically our
friends
at FSMLabs market the RTLinux kits. They also make available the
same
thing under the GPL license, I still haven't figured if there is a loss of functionality between the two. At some point they were
working
on a floppy drive sized version of the product.
Before committing to having a working Linux BIOS image based on
it,
what I am leaning towards is having the chosen image boot the
floppy
drive sized version, and then facilitate whatever tests I, (or my staff), have in mind. Probably between two or more machines, with
one
of them being the lucky one with the working Linux BIOS image on
it,
in place of the commodity BIOS. I suspect they all would need to
be
the same machine for this to work. And of course the company unofficially tells me that they have actually discontinued work on this floppy drive sized version of their product. So far, I can't
seem
to get them to tell me why.
Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon@worldnet.att.net
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