are there problems with this email? - what is a disc on chip? - beginner's question
Ronald G. Minnich
rminnich at lanl.gov
Wed Jan 8 19:40:00 CET 2003
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Antony Stone wrote:
> Because they do not have a large enough capacity. Standard BIOS chips are
> 2megabits (= 32 kilobytes), which is not neough to hold a Linux kernel.
no 2 megabits is 256 kbytes. Still not enough for a kernel. Plenty for
etherboot however.
> You can program a Flash Rom chip on your motherboard - no external programmer
> needed - that's how you upgrade the BIOS even if you're not doing anything
> with LinuxBIOS.
my flash programmer has been on a shelf for two years now.
ron
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