Burning BIOS on FLASH ROMS, is the kernel also needs to burnt on it

[Adam Agnew]

http://www.missl.cs.umd.edu/~agnew/freebios-snapshot-for-deepak.tgz


On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Adam Agnew wrote:

> Oh, and ADLO slows things down a little. mostly because it definitely
> needs the hard drives to be spun up already, while the linux kernel can be
> tricked into thinking they already are. Same with etherboot. If you want 3
> second boot up, booting from IDE is out of the question. The other thing
> you can try is a DoC Millenium which is a bios chip with 8 megs of
> storage.
>
> On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Deepak Kotian wrote:
>
> >
> > Thanks for the quick response.
> >
> >
> > If I use ADLO, will the machine boot up really fast, would there be
> > performance
> > degradation because of this. My main intention is to improve the startup
> > time to around
> > 2/3 seconds.
> >
> > About ADLO, I could not see it in the utils folder in the linuxbios source I
> > have.
> > Can the cvs snapshot be updated please. I do not have access to LINUX box as
> > of now.
> >
> > Regards
> > Deepak
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Adam Agnew" <agnew at cs.umd.edu>
> > To: "Deepak Kotian" <dkotian3 at vsnl.net>
> > Cc: <linuxbios at clustermatic.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 12:37 AM
> > Subject: Re: Burning BIOS on FLASH ROMS, is the kernel also needs to burnt
> > on it
> >
> >
> > > 3 ways.
> > >
> > > 1. Etherboot 5.0.6 with polled ide patch:
> > > download etherboot-5.0.6 and see http://www.missl.cs.umd.edu/~agnew/ for
> > > the patch.
> > >
> > > 2. Etherboot development series:
> > > download etherboot-5.1.7
> > >
> > > 3. ADLO
> > > see freebios/utils/ADLO/ from the linuxbios cvs. (this one is the most
> > > work, but wont require you to modify your kernel when you're done)
> > >
> > > - Adam Agnew
> > >
> > > On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Deepak Kotian wrote:
> > >
> > > > HI,
> > > >
> > > >     Looking at the burn mtd script, it seems that the linux kernel image
> > also needs
> > > >     to be burnt on the BIOS flash along with linuxbios.In this case, if
> > the customized kernel
> > > >     image is around 900KB  ,then it may be difficult to fit it on the
> > FLASH ROMS which is
> > > >     usually 2-4MBit.
> > > >     Is there a way to boot it from IDE device itself instead of the
> > above process.
> > > >
> > > >     Could some please clarify on this.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks and Regards
> > > > Deepak
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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