On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 16:01, Christer Weinigel wrote:
Cons:
Not as flexible as a normal BIOS.
I know what you mean ;-), but I don't think this is quite the right thing to say... as a key point of LinuxBIOS is its flexibility...
... If you want to be able to boot without a VGA card.. ... If you want to be able to preserve kernel state information over reboots etc.
....LinuxBIOS is flexible from the developer's standpoint...
However, LinuxBIOS is immature - it doesn't support as much hardware/boot devices as a "traditional" BIOS. So, given an inflexible feature set (boot typically from any local device via a local VGA screen/keyboard to run your mainstream desktop operating system) a traditional BIOS is quite flexible about what hardware you can boot from and what motherboards it supports....
..Anyway, I think linuxBIOS is "flexible" compared with a traditional BIOS, but has, currently, less support for the available hardware i.e immature.
Hope that helps!
Ian.