ron minnich wrote:
I think there is going to be continued use of the ide/floppy stuff without etherboot. I have requests for that all the time. It's going to have to stay.
I support only loading elfboot images from linuxbios. It just makes too much sense.
Does linuxbios in the current version support elfboot images from ide/floppy (directly, without etherboot)? I guess if it does I don't see it.
One issue I have with elfboot images is the inability to dynamically pass parameters to the zero page (specifically the vga cursor location). I understand the idea of not locking the boot mechanism into the bios, but there are pros and cons.
The final step of booting Linux is pretty independent of the other linuxbios code, though, so it is easy to patch in an alternate technique for someone (like me) that has specific requirements.
-Steve