On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:19:11 +0200, Peter Stuge peter@stuge.se wrote:
Joseph Smith wrote:
I think you should just use SeaBIOS.
Nope. This will be a autoboot_mbr option of FILO. Here is how it will work:
So you're teaching FILO how to act like a BIOS.
I will fight that patch hard. I'm afraid I think this design is completely misguided.
Joseph Smith wrote:
Ah, Jordan you speak to soon. I have learn a way to setup a simple real mode interrupt handler, capable of sending generic/dummy responses back to the software....
We generally want less of these, not more. Because they are needed for compatibility reasons the ideal scenario is to contain them in one single place. That place is SeaBIOS.
If you want BIOS behavior, just use a BIOS.
Dam it Peter, I don't want to make FILO into a "BIOS". I would think by now you would know better than that. I just want to make it boot like a bootloader should. A bootloader should be able to boot a drive without specifing PATHS. It should be able to read the drives info and boot to the OS. No matter what OS it is.....