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

[Jeff Hubbs]

Might want to shave that time by a factor of ten or so.  See
http://slashdot.org/articles/01/08/27/1419238.shtml.

- Jeff

James Kinney wrote:
> 
> 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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