[ale] linux box from bios, can it be done?

[James Kinney]

There is a linux bios chip. The supplier escapes me but I'm sure it won't
escape google. I've seen it it action. Think 8-10 seconds from power-on to
prompt with a journaling filesystem.

On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Stephen Turner wrote:

> with the advance in technology it seems to me that we
> could have larger bios chips. is it not possible for
> us to buy a larger chip for use as bios? thus allowing
> us to possibly make a lfs or linux from scratch file
> server that boots entirely from bios? with shadowing..
> im sure something could be arranged very nicely that
> would allow us to use the full 80 gig hard disks (or
> bigger ones) ?  i have read that lfs can make a apache
> web server os at the incredible small size of 5 meg.
> and with flash chips progressing in size (i know ram
> is :) ) would it not be a possibility or even
> desirable task to make linux os bios? that would allow
> hd's to become only a storage/backup medium :)
>
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