giving the user a boot option

[Peter Stuge]

On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 12:10:25PM -0800, Steve M. Gehlbach wrote:
> > > Maybe I'm missing something here, but I don't understand how you do
> > > this.
> > > Grub and lilo require a legacy BIOS.
> >
> > LinuxBIOS + ADLO + BOCHS BIOS + ( LILO | GRUB )
> 
> Seems like a lot of complexity, and I am kind of a zealot against real mode.
> Has anyone considered writing the disk/video interface for Grub, to replace
> the BIOS calls?

The tiara project has done this.  Made a version of grub that didn't need
the legacy BIOS that is.  http://sourceforge.net/projects/utcboot/


//Peter