Steve Gehlbach steve@nexpath.com writes:
Antony Stone wrote:
The Bios of anything I've seen in the past 12-18 months has been capable of booting from USB-IDE, USB-CD, USB-Floppy and USB-Zip The solid state flash drives behave exactly like USB-IDE as far as what they're plugged into is concerned - just like Compact Flash cards vs. normal IDE drives.
Hmmm... I guess I need to look at a current BIOS, I must have overlooked it.
Anyway, any idea how much work it would be to get linuxbios to be able to read the USB-IDE?
I don't think there is USB-IDE. I think the stack looks like USB-SCSI.
The challenge is that the USB stack is fairly tall.
We should be able to incorporate a version of that into etherboot or FILO.
I don't think we want a version of that in the core of LinuxBIOS, but I can be surprised.
Eric