are there problems with this email? - what is a disc on chip? - beginner's question

[Ronald G. Minnich]

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