Linux on a chip?

Question

This is what I had come across before.

When we install Linux into our system, we put the Linux CD into our drive and it will upload the Linux into our hard disk. From there, we can boot the system when we turn on the computer.

Instead of downloading the Linux into the hard disk, can we burn all of it into a chip instead? So, instead of booting the system from the hard disk, we now boot it from the chip. Can it be done?

How do we also point to the chip to boot the system?

Answer 1

stick the cd in, put a decent size flash drive in (no less than 4g, 8g recommended), and use the flash drive as a hard drive. grub needs to be installed to /dev/sdb1 (your boot partition on your flash drive). after the install, boot to windows, start -> right click on computer, click manage, click disk management, then set /dev/sdb1 as "active", and reboot. hit whatever you need to to enter bios, and set your flash drive as first boot (or if it's an hp/compaq, set hard drive as first boot, with the flash drive being the first hard drive) and enjoy

Answer 2

If this were possible, do you not think it would have been done before, e.g. with Windows/any other OS? The capacity of chips is very small compared to large-scale storage devices such as hard drives. Your BIOS chip, for example, is typically 4MB and not exactly unnoticable on your motherboard. To store enough info for an OS the chip would have to be huge. Solid state hard drives are the nearest we are at the moment to what you are describing. Unless you kept the entire OS in memory (e.g. what standby does to an extent), but using DRAM this would require power all the time to keep the information there, and SRAM is very expensive.

Answer 3

You will have to change your rom-bios settings in your rom-bios setup. When you computer in booting up you will need to catch the boot up with F8 or delete key (varies from computer to computer) If this doesn't work go on the internet to the manufactures website and find out how to get into the rom-bios to make changes. It will usually flash on the boot up screen briefly (but you have to look fast and put your finger on the pause button to freeze it and look) After you are in the rom-bios you can select which drive the computer uses for boot up. select the usb drive you will be putting the flash drive in.

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Answer 4

if by chip you mean SD card or USB drive, then yes it's possible



but you need a motherboard that supports booting from USB



just so you don't confuse things, unplug every internal hard drive and external drive except for the SD card or thumbdrive and then do the install and choose the thumbdrive/flash memory as the install location

Answer 5

Yes it is doable, however you will need to make the boot option in BIOS to a drive where the chip resides.

Answer 6

right track wrong direction partition the disc min 20gb load linux to partition then reboot windows will give you operating system option to use then