From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Gareth Williams <gareth@microm-electronics.com>
Cc: "'linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org'" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: DOC LILO BIOS Identities.
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 14:27:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15446.1003843674@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25D13BA49CC6D31193040040953309CE7FAB@MICSERV>
gareth@microm-electronics.com said:
> Okay - tell me about GRUB, I take it that it's similar to LILO in that
> it's a boot manager?
Yep. You can load it into the DiskOnChip in place of their normal firmware,
so that the system BIOS runs Grub instead of trying to boot normally.
Then there are patches to grub itself to make it drive the DiskOnChip.
Those patches aren't 100% perfect yet, but they're fairly close. They're in
CVS.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-23 13:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-23 13:35 DOC LILO BIOS Identities Gareth Williams
2001-10-23 13:27 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2001-11-11 11:21 ` pcmcia sram card somshekar kadam
2001-11-11 13:41 ` David Woodhouse
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2001-10-23 12:06 DOC LILO BIOS Identities Gareth Williams
2001-10-23 12:54 ` kira brown
2001-10-23 12:55 ` David Woodhouse
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