Hello, I've been following the discussion on the "Booting from floppy" thread. Someone said that there are better ways to get fast starts, like the DoC and CF IDE and what not. I'm still thinking that you're going to be waiting for the typical BIOS to run its course. So what were they referring to? something like XIP type CF or what?
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Nathanael Noblet wrote:
I've been following the discussion on the "Booting from floppy" thread. Someone said that there are better ways to get fast starts, like the DoC and CF IDE and what not. I'm still thinking that you're going to be waiting for the typical BIOS to run its course. So what were they referring to? something like XIP type CF or what?
yes, you can put IDE-FLASH in a conventional BIOS and still wait for 5 minutes in some cases.
ron
yes, you can put IDE-FLASH in a conventional BIOS and still wait for 5 minutes in some cases.
Or in my particular application, forever. <grumbles about stupid BIOSes that won't let you force drive parameters and don't wait long enough for the CF to respond>
Regards, Andrew
Andrew Kohlsmith akohlsmith-linuxbios@benshaw.com writes:
yes, you can put IDE-FLASH in a conventional BIOS and still wait for 5 minutes in some cases.
Or in my particular application, forever. <grumbles about stupid BIOSes that won't let you force drive parameters and don't wait long enough for the CF to respond>
It probably means the BIOS is depending on the RDRY signal which many CF drives don't actually set.
Eric
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