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radhapriya 07-22-2003 11:18 PM

booting linux from flash!
 
Hello,

If I Linux OS resides in Flash memory rather than in hard disk how shall I boot it?

Give me suggestion plz.

bharath_nr 07-22-2003 11:58 PM

Hi ,

You need to have the FLASH reader Hardware , wehere you can boot the OS from the Flash. The FLASH reader is basically a Hardware which will read the contents of the FLASH. It is nothing but a Seperate Board which slot into the Mother board of the System and will boot up from there.

Bye
Bharath N R

radhapriya 07-23-2003 01:30 AM

I have a BIOS program which performs hardware initialization. After this, it has to load my linux OS from Flash memory into SDRAM.

Thymox 07-24-2003 06:13 PM

I have just read about mini PCs (micro-atx/mini-itx, etc) in MicroMart and apparently there is a pretty cool device that has an IDE connector at one end and a CF slot at the other, so you can use your flash drive as a standard, albeit small, IDE drive! How cool is that! I know booting from a dedicated flash drive would be better, but at least this would possibly bring flash booting to the masses :D).

Anyway, at the time of writing this, the article is not available on the site - it was only published today (Thursday, 24th July, 2003). It will be soon, though.


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