[openbeos] Re: x86 boot loader milestone
- From: Michael Phipps <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 13:58:58 -0400
This is too funny. I am working on exactly this same thing! :-)
What I was thinking was that I would make a ram disk and mount home as the ram
disk. And turn off VM. Certain critical things (preferences) would be copied
back to the CF. So far, it does boot pretty fast. The next step was/is to
investigate LinuxBIOS to see if we could boot with that. :-)
Michael
On 2004-04-21 at 13:33:12 [-0400], Commander Sozo wrote:
> > That's a completely different issue. Of course, you can boot the OS from a
> > compact flash card (as long as the BIOS supports that) - but to
> > transfer control to another installation on disk would mean to remount
> > the boot device, and I don't think this will be easily possible (it's
> > impossible in BeOS).
> > What is this needed for anyway?
> >
> > Bye,
> > Axel.
>
> I have a compact flash -> IDE adapter and can use a CF card just like an IDE
> hard drive. I was hoping to use it to store the bootloader and parts of the
> OS code so that the machine would boot much faster than waiting on the hard
> drive read head to move around. With a big CF card you can put the entire OS
> installation on the flash drive, but you'd wear it out quickly. I was just
> wondering if the bootloader and some of the OS code could be stored on the
> compact flash drive (even if the boot drive was still the hard drive and the
> bootloader moved the OS boot and startup code from CF to RAM instead of HDD
> to RAM) to gain some speed.
>
> -Ben
>
>
> ---------------------------------------
> Commander Sozo
> CommdrSozo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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