Re: filo on Tyan s2880

[YhLu]

Sone,

So if the user installed the Linux Distribution to HD in normal BIOS and
after that he flash the ROM to LinuxBIOS with FIFO and the system call work
without any problem.

YH.

-----邮件原件-----
发件人: SONE Takeshi [mailto:[e-mail]] 
发送时间: 2003年10月30日 10:13
收件人: YhLu
抄送: Stefan Reinauer; [e-mail]
主题: Re: filo on Tyan s2880

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 09:49:49AM -0800, YhLu wrote:
> What is the FIFO URL and the status?
> Is it some kind payload for LinuxBIOS?

FILO loads vmlinuz and ELF kernel from filesystem (like ext2)
on the local IDE hard disk, CD-ROM, CompactFlash, or ROM.
It's working well on my EPIA, and also reported to work with
K8 based boards including Tyan's.

See this for details: http://te.to/~ts1/filo/

My plan is to add support for configuration file, so the default kernel
location and parameters will no longer be hard coded in the Flash, and
Stephan told me maybe he can support this config file in the future
releases of SuSE installation CDs.

filo on Tyan s2880

[SONE Takeshi]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 10:25:07AM -0800, YhLu wrote:
> So if the user installed the Linux Distribution to HD in normal BIOS and
> after that he flash the ROM to LinuxBIOS with FIFO and the system call work
> without any problem.

If the user writes the FILO configuration file.

It will be possible that FILO loads the configuration file from
distribution CD and boot from the CD almost automatically,
and the distribution installer creates the FILO configuration file
on the hard disk, so the machine will boot from hard disk next time.
(the default location of the config file can be saved in CMOS)
So the LinuxBIOS pre-installed workstation will be possible.