giving the user a boot option

[Steve M. Gehlbach]

> Yes. I agree it is complex. We have given it fairly a bit of though and if
> you want to support legacy applications then it is pretty much about the
> only way to do this.
>
> Sure we could go LinuxBIOS version of grub, but unless you add "legacy
> application support" it won't help you with booting anything else other
> than linux. So while it may fit with your particular problem, usefullness
> of such hack won't be as big as one could expect.
>
> --
> Adam Sulmicki


Well, I certainly did not mean to imply ADLO or BOCHS was complex
unnecessarily.  These are brilliant developments that greatly advance the
capabilities of the open source community.

My point was that I am only focused on booting linux, and so the legacy BIOS
is just flash baggage after linux gets going.  Grub offers some booting
flexibility that I need, and since it is C code, also is more easily
customized for some other things I need to do during boot (embedded
application).  So the interest in a non-BIOS adaptation (I prefer that word
to "hack").  It doesn't really matter to me if it has wide interest or not,
as long as it solves my purposes and doesn't take too long to do and isn't
really stupid for some reason or other.  I just wanted to see if it was
already done or there was a giant flaw in my thinking.  Based on a previous
post, perhaps the tiara project may have already done it, so I am going to
check that out.

Thanks for your excellent work on ADLO and mods to BOCHS-BIOS.

-Steve