* Eric W. Biederman ebiederman@lnxi.com [031119 03:23]:
Possibly a better term would be failsafe image.
What happens is that if everything looks good the fallback image hands control to the normal one. Otherwise it keeps control.
Note: IIRC, the "normal" image is called with protected mode already running, so it needs a different startup code (entry32.s instead of entry16.s?) Also, the failsafe image does not do cmos option handling afair?
Stefan