Adam Sulmicki adam@cfar.umd.edu writes:
yay, keyboard works. now I have fully functional "lilo classic" from under LinuxBIOS.
Thanks to everyone for help.
(the "fix" was to remove the broken keyboard init code from the bios).
Cool. I am interested to see how far, and where this goes.
I have been working to get kexec into the kernel and figuring out how to use it to build interesting bootloaders. What I have been stumbling over is how do I put in support for booting windows. As I do not trust BIOS calls that talk to hardware device drivers after a Linux kernel has run.
Long term does running your code on a machine with a normal BIOS sound like a possibility?
If so then a very interesting bootloader can be built on top of kexec, and the linux kernel.
Eric