[vdr] Re: Fast boot -- experience with LinuxBios?

[Alessio Sangalli <alesan@manoweb.com>]

Dirk Wiebel wrote:

> Hello List,
>
> for some time now, I think of booting my "small" VDR machine via
> LinuxBios (www.linuxbios.org). Until now I had no spare time for such
> large (?) experiments. Hopefully, there will be a chance to start
> playing around with these things within the next weeks.
>
> When deja'ing/googl'ing arount, I came across a message by Alessio who

Hi ;)

Recently I had some experiences with linuxbios. The situation is the 
following: if you have a pcchips 810 motherboard, or similar ones, 
you're done. There are bios images at ftp.cwlinux.com you can flash 
directly. The boot time is about 1 second for the bios itself and then 
the kernel takes the control of the machine. In few seconds your it will 
be operating and ready, provided that you don't have a big fat init 
sequence with sendmail apache and 1000 other daemons ;)

If you have a different board things could be more difficult. Generally 
speaking, motherboards based on chipset sis 730 (or 735) are (well) 
supported; however much road has to be done before linuxbios can be used 
on every board out there.

Provide better details about your hardware, I will be able to answer to 
you better.

bye!
as

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