Re: Linux-native ROM?
maybe this will help
http://www.acl.lanl.gov/linuxbios/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Cours" <linux-j@moriarti.org>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: Linux-native ROM?
> At 09:06 9/30/2002 +0200, DSC Siltec wrote:
> >Here's a quick question, perhaps someone would know the answer.
> >
> >Suppose I wanted to make a computer that was completely and automatically
> >native to Linux, such that it automatically booted
> >into Linux, nice and quickly. What would the best way of doing
> >this be?
>
> Unfortunately I just had to unsubscribe from debian-user to keep my in-box
> from overflowing[1], so please cc me if you need to reply to me.
>
> To ideas come to mind.
>
> The first is http://www.openbrick.org, which you can get for around 500
> Euros (about $US 500) with Debian pre-installed on compact flash. A few
> tweaks should let you mount everything important read-only in compact
flash
> with maybe /var and /home on a hard drive and /tmp in a RAM disk.
>
> The second is to do something similar with a CD-ROM, maybe using the very
> interesting stuff from http://www.lnx-bbc.org or doing a custom Debian
> install to an ISO image you've mounted through a loopback device. Same
deal
> there: everything except /var and /home is on the CD-ROM or in a RAM disk.
> The only catch is that the user would need the disk in the drive to boot,
> just like the old 128K Macs and original PC's.
>
> - Jeff
>
> [1] My fetchmail/imap server fried last night to the point that it won't
> even get to the BIOS screen, so mail's backing up in my spool on the ISP
> until I can fix the beast.
>
>
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