[coreboot] .. Re: Via epia

Uwe Hermann uwe at hermann-uwe.de
Sat Mar 15 18:56:22 CET 2008


On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 07:59:11PM +0530, jtd wrote:
> > > What is the purpose of fallback.
> >
> > It's a second, fallback, version of coreboot and payload that could
> > be used for recovery.
> >
> > It's not mandatory but is usually enabled by default.
> 
> Payload: 78064 coreboot: 65536 ROM size: 196608 Left space: 53008

That's one possibility to solve this, if you don't want/need two images
)normal/fallback). But it's usually enough to make your FILO smaller,
e.g. by disabling all filesystem support you don't need in FILO's
'Config' file, e.g. XFS, Minix, ReiserFS, whatnot.


Uwe.
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