No, just an intermediate kernel is written into flash memory along with coreboot. It doesn't wear little flash chip as it doesn't write anything which needs to persist, that's actually one of the points of this…
If you're lucky and your machine supports coreboot there is even better way to boot into linux - use slimmed down linux kernel as a direct payload of coreboot and kexec into your actual kernel. This way you're skipping…
RIP Linode. It was the 2nd (after Slicehost) "cloud service" I was introduced to back then in 2009 I believe, when my, back then CTO, insisted that "cloud" is the way to go and some job skills (sysadmin) will eventually…
No, just an intermediate kernel is written into flash memory along with coreboot. It doesn't wear little flash chip as it doesn't write anything which needs to persist, that's actually one of the points of this…
If you're lucky and your machine supports coreboot there is even better way to boot into linux - use slimmed down linux kernel as a direct payload of coreboot and kexec into your actual kernel. This way you're skipping…
RIP Linode. It was the 2nd (after Slicehost) "cloud service" I was introduced to back then in 2009 I believe, when my, back then CTO, insisted that "cloud" is the way to go and some job skills (sysadmin) will eventually…