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An Embedded 🐧Linux on a Single 💾Floppy
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Improvements by imaandrew #4

Closed informer2016 closed 2 years ago

informer2016 commented 2 years ago

@w84death , just letting you know about these improvements by @imaandrew (not tested by myself yet). And thank you so much for such a wonderful project! Here's why I am so interested:

Even today the floppies are still being used, for example - as virtual floppies inside the coreboot open source BIOS. Just imagine: your wonderful floppy could be a part of someone's BIOS build! _(for a coreboot supported motherboard, maybe you have or could get one - see https://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards )_

If you already have a coreboot-supported motherboard, or a real chance to get one, - wouldn't it be cool to be able to launch your own OS straight from the BIOS chip? ;) With one simple command its possible to add any floppy to coreboot BIOS build - and then you see it as a permanent boot entry at your BIOS menu! Multiple floppies could be added this way (as long as you have enough space left inside the BIOS flash chip, luckily LZMA compression could be used for the stored floppies to reduce their occupied size)

w84death commented 2 years ago

@informer2016 this is awesome! I did not know that coreboot has such functionality. Thanks a lot for the tip now I'm way more curious about this BIOS replacement :)