"Richard B. Johnson" wrote:
>
> Until you really need to boot from a floppy so you can update your
> NVRAM (or whatever you are using to embed Linux). Think customers
> at a remote site, no boxes to boot over the network from, etc.
>
Why the heck do you want to put something as big, clumsy, unreliable and
expensive as a FLOPPY DRIVE on an embedded system? You're better off
using a socketed ROM or a serial port of some sort. This is again good
reasons to not use a BIOS ***unless you need PC compatibility***.
-hpa
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