Tiny Core Linux

General TC => General TC Talk => Topic started by: P5music on March 27, 2010, 07:38:32 AM

Title: is planned support for coreboot?
Post by: P5music on March 27, 2010, 07:38:32 AM

hi
I was wondering whether this interesting coreboot (linuxbios) thing is suitable for tinycore.
Is exploiting it planned?
links
http://www.coreboot.org/Welcome_to_coreboot
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=linuxbios&search_type=

Title: Re: is planned support for coreboot?
Post by: curaga on March 27, 2010, 07:54:16 AM

Not really relevant. Bios chips are usually about 1M, so embedding TC as a payload would not work. If used as a bios/bootloader replacement, it doesn't really matter to it what it loads, nor to us what loads us.

Title: Re: is planned support for coreboot?
Post by: P5music on March 27, 2010, 08:01:56 AM

if I'm not wrong you are saying that nothing stops from using coreboot and tinycore in the same system.
now, I now that "immediate" boot is not priority for many users, but for someone is, so why not to create a wiki for it, because it seems to be too difficult for non-expert tinycore users.

Title: Re: is planned support for coreboot?
Post by: curaga on March 27, 2010, 08:29:23 AM

Yeah, there's nothing stopping anyone from using coreboot with TC. However it doesn't relate to us at all, no configuration needs to be done in TC to be booted from coreboot.

Title: Re: is planned support for coreboot?
Post by: P5music on March 27, 2010, 09:13:59 AM

I understand.
What I am trying to say is that coreboot+tinycore is tinycore squared for some people. I think many entered tinycore world for its fast booting so many more would enter if they find information about corebooting here.

Title: Re: is planned support for coreboot?
Post by: aus9 on March 28, 2010, 06:54:26 PM

hi

altho coreboot is a bios thingee......grub2 specificallly has a module for it so it can see what your new bios sees.....FWIW

but I never got around to making any tcz packages