Re: MILO vs BIOS on Linux/Intel.

Peter Horton (pdh@berserk.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 13 Feb 1998 23:07:01 +0000 (GMT)


Lots of motherboard manufacturers are moving away from the current
1M bit parts to 4M bit ones. The current 128K is not a lot of space
for a modern desktop BIOS (and that's with it compressed!).

On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Alexander Kjeldaas wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 11, 1998 at 01:24:10PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> >
> > oleg@usm.uni-muenchen.de said:
> > > I'm wondering how difficult it would be to
> > > put MIniLOader in flash like it was done on Alpha instead
> > > of that LILO/MBR mess ?
> >
> >
> > There's not going to be enough room in with the normal BIOS. However, if
> > you've got a network card with space for a ROM, you could put it in there.
>
> Are you sure? Many MBs come with 1MB flash and I wouldn't expect the
> BIOS to use all that.
>
> astor
>
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