Re: MILO vs BIOS on Linux/Intel.

Patrick St. Jean (psj@cgmlarson.com)
Wed, 11 Feb 1998 11:04:41 -0600 (CST)

On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, David Woodhouse wrote:
> oleg@usm.uni-muenchen.de said:
> > I'm wondering how difficult it would be to
> > put MIniLOader in flash like it was done on Alpha instead
> > of that LILO/MBR mess ?
>
> 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? I was thinking about buying a spare prom for
my board so that I could burn a new bios without trashing the existing
one. When I was looking at the part number I recall it being a 1Mbit
prom. That's 128k... That's a lot of room to put a loader for IDE hard
drives/cdroms and floppy disks... The only problem is that the BIOS does
some initialization of the PCI stuff and more for SMP that'd beed to be
put in. But that could probably be in the kernel anyways...

Pat

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