Re: [coreboot] LinuxTag 2008 Status

[Joseph Smith]

> > > Uwe expressed a desire to select a chain from the menu
> >
> > No offense, but IMHO that is a bit overboard.
>
> Not as overboard as it might sound though - say for example that we make
> a payload specifically to populate the legacy tables.  A boot menu could
> offer the choice between Windows and Linux, and if you chose the Windows
> path it would run the legacy table payload followed by the windows loader,
> while the Linux path would just run grub2 (or FILO).  Its not a crazy
> idea,
> and its the sort of thing we need to be prepared for.

I really like this idea :-)

Thanks,
Joseph Smith
Set-Top-Linux
www.settoplinux.org