Re: MILO vs BIOS on Linux/Intel.

David Woodhouse (Dave@imladris.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 11 Feb 1998 18:04:12 +0000

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psj@cgmlarson.com said:
> > There's not going to be enough room in with the normal BIOS. However,
> > if you've got a network card with space for a ROM, you could put it in
> >there.

> David,
> Are you sure about that?
> <...>
> When I was looking at the part number I recall it being a 1Mbit prom.

It seems I was wrong. Surprisingly, the BIOS flash chips seem to have far
more capacity than they actually need. I just assumed that they would not,
because it doesn't seem to be a very efficient use of resources.

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