[coreboot] .. Re: .. Re: Via epia

jtd jtd at mtnl.net.in
Sun Mar 16 06:45:36 CET 2008


On Saturday 15 March 2008 11:26 pm, Uwe Hermann wrote:
> 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.

Aha. Ok.

-- 
Rgds
JTD




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