On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 14:36, Ryan Underwood wrote:
Very nice! That slipped in under my radar. I guess I'll be heading in that direction then instead of bothering with the old proprietary junk.
You should also note Peter Anvin's MEMDISK which emulates a virtual HDD from a memory image. The code lives with syslinux, but not tied to any specific bootloader.
http://syslinux.zytor.com/memdisk.php
It's possible that there may soon also be PXE for Etherboot as well; there is a reasonable amount of code in existance and I'm trying to resurrect it and get enough working that a couple of NBPs will run.
I personally think that a completely open legacy BIOS implementation based on these + ADLO + bochs BIOS with hardware handled by LinuxBIOS will have a very significant impact on a certain family of proprietary operating systems.