* Ward Vandewege ward@gnu.org [060425 00:25]:
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 12:21:44AM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
- Ronald G Minnich rminnich@lanl.gov [060425 00:02]:
this problem goes back to our very first boot some six years ago. Amazing.
ATA has outrageous boot delays. I'm sorry to see that SATA has them too. I have no good idea how to fix this, unless we can train FILO to know that we're coming into boot from power on reset.
What's needed here? Just keep on polling until either a couple more seconds are gone or we finally start seeing the drive?
What features does the etherboot filo have that the official one does not? I'd like to merge those, as file-pre-0.5 has a lot of interesting stuff that never went into etherboot (and etherboot is a pita to build compared to filo at least)
Can we have SATA support directly in filo? That would simplify things greatly!
The latest Subversion revision at
svn://openbios.org/filo/trunk/filo-0.5
should have working S-ATA. I have no S-ATA here so I could not test it. It's the version that also comes with the GRUB user interface.
It still lacks two things:
- reading syslinux.cfg from cdroms/dvds to allow really easy CD booting - zelf support
Stefan