- The ability to boot from many media (network, cd, floppy, ide
etc). Network booting would be nice but the network card support may be a bit cumbersome.
How about a "combination" netboot approach? The BIOS could maybe handle all of the netboot _except_ the NIC driver.
Store the NIC driver on a specially-formatted floppy. The floppy would call a BIOS routine to register NIC driver of size XXXX at address XXXX, and the BIOS would take over.
It's a bit kludgy and backwards way of loading an option ROM, but who says existing BIOSes aren't kludgy and backwards? ;-)
My $.02
Eddy
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