Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Oct 1998 13:14:38 +0200 | From | Florian Lohoff <> | Subject | Re: Motherboard design specifically for Linux |
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On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 08:33:42AM +0100, Simon Kenyon wrote: > On 21-Oct-98 Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > The serial (and/or floppy) loading mechanism was intended, in this thread, to > > allow fix a badly flashed rom, as a last resort when nothing else helps. > > in my case "the last resort" would involve taking the machine apart and adding > a floppy drive *or* connecting another machine running some special software > which would download the kernel with some special protocol. >
Dont make it special ... Why not speaking zmodem on the serial port by 9600 ... then it takes a bit of downloading the kernel but you can do it with any terminal program - Attach a small Notebook load code reboot and there you are again.
Flo -- Florian.Lohoff@mediaWays.net +49-5241-80-7085 Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick any two (you can't have all three). (RFC 1925)
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