Booting from floppy

[Phil Brooks]

We are interested in using LinuxBIOS on our medical system, running the Digital Logic P5 PC-104 SBC. After reading these posts, and scanning the FAQ, I am confused about boot methods:

Will LinuxBIOS work on a stand-alone system with a EIDE disk?

If floppy boot won't be supported, can it boot from cdrom?

Thanks very much,

Phil Brooks

Phil Brooks - Software Engineer
Olympic Medical
206-268-5119
philb at olymed.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Ronald G. Minnich [mailto:rminnich at lanl.gov]
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 2:21 PM
To: Big Pilot
Cc: adam at cfar.umd.edu; linuxbios at clustermatic.org
Subject: Re: Booting from floppy


On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Big Pilot wrote:

> 
> So there are two issues: a) DOS isn't supported and b) the floppy as a
> boot device isn't supported. That will make it a very difficult sell for
> mobo manufacturers. Can you imagine me buying a Linux PC with LinuxBIOS
> and it crashing. How am I going to repair it then?

floppies are dead. What's wrong with a cdrom boot?

ron

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