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

[Jonathan Rickman]

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 :)

Not BIOS, but definately hack-worthy...

http://www.thinknic.com

CDROM and a 4 meg flash block. I'm working on getting one up and running with
a notebook HD. Been testing/hacking it for a few months now. It has potential.

-- 
Jonathan Rickman
X Corps Security
http://www.xcorps.net

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