RE: giving the user a boot option

[Steve M. Gehlbach]

> > > Well, u could put grub or lilo on flash, either of them works with
> > > linuxbios. The space may be big tight though.
> >
> > Maybe I'm missing something here, but I don't understand how
>
> you do this.
> > Grub and lilo require a legacy BIOS.
>
> LinuxBIOS + ADLO + BOCHS BIOS + ( LILO | GRUB )
>
> Adam

Seems like a lot of complexity, and I am kind of a zealot against real mode.
Has anyone considered writing the disk/video interface for Grub, to replace
the BIOS calls?  Looking at the Grub code the BIOS calls seem pretty
isolated, and most of the code (I think) is already in linuxbios in some
form or another (although vga is there for only a couple of boards right
now).  I for one would like a general bootloader, and Grub is pretty neat.

-Steve