Booting from floppy

[Adam Sulmicki]

> > people first see "LinuxBIOS", misinterpretation does seem to be
> > common. "LinuxBIOS" does *not* mean "a BIOS for Linux" - for one
> > thing, Linux does needs no BIOS. The project's original intention was
> > to put Linux in a mobo rom *instead* of a legacy PC BIOS.
>
> it's this way for historical reasons and it almost seems too late to
> change. But Garzik really called this freebios so there's no reason not to
> pick that up at some point.

Not to mention "EtherBOOT" that boots from IDE.

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Adam Sulmicki
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