[OpenBIOS] probably the last questions

[Ronald G. Minnich]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Kent Nyberg wrote:
> Are you just trying to put a Linux kernel in the bios, or will you put
> an advanced bootloader there? Or will you put both there (bootloader and
> kernel)?

I am putting linux there. I have no interest in anything else on our
cluster -- linux is what we run. 

> How much code can you put in the bios?
1 MByte. 

> Since not much seem to have changed on the bios front the last 10 years
> i don't think they can be that big... ?

They're huge. The phoenix bios is over 1/2M. For all that size what it
gets you is a not very useful piece of code. Do you want 1/2M of phoenix
bios or 1/2M of linux image :-)

> Oh,  i have noticed that some linux mailinglist seem to NOT like if one
> write alot on the mailinglists..  is it the same here?

Please write a lot and ask questions. Also, if you want to help, that
would be good too.

ron

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