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SubjectRe: Motherboard design specifically for Linux
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
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