[Fwd: Re: DiskOnChip Questions]

[Hendricks David W.]

Sounds about right. Put your kernel on an IDE device with a filesystem 
(FILO supports EXT2/3, Reiser, XFS, etc) and use FILO as your LinuxBIOS 
payload (payload /where/filo/is/located/filo.elf in your 
targets/via/epia-m/Config.lb file). You also need to tell FILO where 
yoru kernel is located and give it any options you want passed to the 
kernel in the "AUTOBOOT_FILE" line, which should look something like 
a LILO prompt: hda1:/kernel root/dev/hda3 console=ttyS0,115200 

Boot image generally implies kernel. 

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Michael Robinson wrote:

> ---The trend seems to be NOT to use DiskOnChip but rather a CF <> IDE 
> adapter. Using FILO you can boot from the CF.---
> 
> So I'd flash FILO to the BIOS, then it would load the LinuxBIOS kernel 
> image, and then the kernel image would do whatever you want LinuxBIOS to 
> do, right? Or am I wrong... It says FILO loads a "boot image", whats the 
> definition of a "boot image", is it just the kernel?
> 
> Thanks,
> Michael Robinson
> mrobinson at fuzzymuzzle.com
> www.fuzzymuzzle.com
> 
> 
> 
> Larry Matter wrote:
> 
> >>what
> >>does the DiskOnChip provide to the LinuxBIOs project that the standard
> >>flash chip can't?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >More than 2 megabits of storage.
> >
> >  
> >
> >>My second is that I'm going to be using the VIA EPIA
> >>MII motherboard which has a PLCC BIOS, as far as I can tell PLCC
> >>DiskOnChips aren't very readily available.  Should I use a DIP to PLCC
> >>adapter; how did the other people who used this board do it?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >The trend seems to be NOT to use DiskOnChip but rather a CF <> IDE
> >adapter.  Using FILO you can boot from the CF.
> >  
> >
> >  
> >
> >>My final
> >>question is how do I pick the size of the DiskOnChip.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >So if you're going to go for the CF <> IDE, then it just needs to be as
> >big as your root partition (or even just an initrd).   There are many
> >other alternatives depending on network, disk, etc.
> >
> >And if you've been following this list for a bit you'll know that you
> >can't (yet) boot off of the CF adapter on the EPIA MII.
> >
> >One last word of advice, get a bios savior.
> >
> >Larry
> >
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 
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