[coreboot] 2 Terabyte Limit of BIOS/MBR

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Sun Jan 13 05:37:13 CET 2008


On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 08:20:13PM +0100, Martin Marcher wrote:
> We are a small company with 2 physical server but given I could
> find a setup where I can install and uninstall linuxbios securely
> (in case it won't work)

I suggest a BIOS savior. Pretty cheap and a great way to switch
between flash chips.

Make sure you get the RD1-LPC8 which is 8Mbit, ie. 1Mbyte. That may
be enough for a LAB (Linux as bootloader) coreboot with your needed
drivers, but then it should probably kexec your normal system kernel.


//Peter




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