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Searching_ _ _
May 12th, 2009, 09:08 PM
Building a Coreboot bios with xserver that runs inside a 2 megabyte BIOS flash memory. No harddrive needed.
6 seconds to Busybox and another 2 seconds for xvesa and matchbox.
8 seconds to boot and no HDD needed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuzRsXKm_NQ

Gullible Jones
May 12th, 2009, 09:37 PM
Wow. What's it compiled against? uClibc? I assume the X server is Xvesa?

Searching_ _ _
May 12th, 2009, 09:56 PM
Uses Buildrom to create the BIOS image, a tool similar to Rom-o-matic.

GCC, at least in the tutorials.
Example (http://www.coreboot.org/GIGABYTE_GA-M57SLI-S4#Manual_build)

Gullible Jones
May 13th, 2009, 01:12 AM
GCC = compiler, not C library. :)

Searching_ _ _
May 13th, 2009, 07:49 PM
I don't tut in Linux, sry. :-\ I am sure there is a distinction somewhere, but my windows is BSODing. Ltr.