On 17/11/07 00:09 +0200, Fridel Fainshtein wrote:
Usb boot loader would be just a nice feature to have in an existent application.
Why should one use "tiny kernel + kexec", if there are such a wonderful things like linuxbios and filo?
Well, first and foremost, because the tiny kernel already knows how to do everything we need - it understands the devices, it can talk the protocols, it can grok the filesystems - it would take man years (decades even) to accomplish that level of support in any other payloads we might have a fancy to write.
Don't get me wrong - FILO and GRUB2 and all the other payloads are great. But they are built for a specific task - and if a feature you want isn't there, then you should look elsewhere. Nothing can compete with a LAB solution to "get it working now".
Jordan