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Skriven 2009-08-06 23:20:26 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38)
     Kommentar till en text av Russell Tiedt
Ärende: and stole their fertilizer
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Hey Russell!

> Sounds, great ... ,

Yeppers!  I hooked a monitor to the Atom and am currently booted up to the
development version I installed onto the ide flash disk;

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[    1.100237] hda: M-Systems IDE 4000 V1.12, ATA DISK drive
[    1.407197] hda: host max PIO4 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4
[    1.407249] hda: MWDMA2 mode selected
[    1.420393] hda: max request size: 128KiB
[    1.422212] hda: 2052288 sectors (1050 MB) w/0KiB Cache, CHS=2036/16/63
[    1.424106] hda: cache flushes not supported
[    1.426105]  hda: hda1
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I do have a ramdisk that can and does boot but ran into a few glitches with
sound so I am now rebuilding the ramdisk except with the Atom instead of the
Xeon just because it can.  :-)

This build should be a keeper.  No matroxfb so I have to use vesafb for now. 
Was going to check out the intelfb again but after getting burned with it after
kv2.6.22-ish or so decided that the onboard GMA 950 works well enough for my
evil demented plans.

> is it only USB booting that is affected?

At the moment yes.  However I can still use the chrootabilty and that will make
it vastly more useful to your P3 scheme since it won't be able to boot usb
anyhow.  Right?

> Wonder if it would be possible to boot off of a firewire
> mounted drive ... <VBVEG>

See above.  On a different motherboard maybe but I have yet to see that work on
anything.  On a motherboard that has onboard firewire and supports booting from
that interface is about the only way that will happen ... other than from an
initrd on a regular bootable disk that is. I could see an ide compact flash
disk pulling that off with the right kernel.


> D-Link seem to be starting to make an appearance ....

I have a wireless-n one that seems to want to work in ap mode with the
madwifi-hal drivers.  I tested it on the Xeon guy and used the zd1211rw on the
Atom to connect to it.  Best I've seen wireless EVER work in this neck of the
woods.  If I cared about wireless that is probably how I'd be doing it now.

> proves that firewire port works ...

How does it perform in comparison to a usb mounted one?

Life is good,
Maurice

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