Re: [LinuxBIOS] USB booting in LinuxBIOS

[Uwe Hermann]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 08:00:11PM -0700, Jordan Crouse wrote:
> On 30/11/07 03:33 +0100, Uwe Hermann wrote:
> > [New thread]
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 08:25:32PM -0500, Richard Smith wrote:
> > > That said, here in the OLPC offices we have still have periodic pain 
> > > involved with USB booting.  A lot of usb sticks are just trash.  The 
> > > generic case requires up to several seconds of delay before you can access 
> > > them.
> >
> > I'm curious, what do you use for USB booting? Is it suitable for
> > generic LinuxBIOS use, too? Both FILO and Etherboot seem pretty broken
> > wrt USB at the moment, GRUB2 doesn't have support at all AFAIK.
>
> They use OFW.

Sure, but how is the "boot from USB" functionality implemented? Forth
code? C code? Can we port it to LinuxBIOS/FILO/GRUB somehow?

Uwe.