Messages in this thread | | | From | teamwork@freemail ... | Subject | "Self-contained Solution" [was Re: Motherboard design specifically for Linux] | Date | Fri, 23 Oct 1998 23:44:47 GMT |
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Vojtech Pavlik said: "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."
Simon replied: "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."
"that means that the solution is not *self contained* i broken pc would not have the h/w and/or s/w to repair a broken rom supermicro motherboards (and i'm certainly not advocating them) have a system whereby if you hold down some key (i forget which) when you turn on the machine and there is a floppy in the drive - the boot code will load a new rom image from the floppy. absolutely minimal!"
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Ummm, please forgive my intrusion.
Would you mind explain a little bit more on what you mean by "self-contained solution", please?
Many thanks in advance.
Sincerely, Pete teamwork@freemail.c3.hu
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