Video initialization, and bootloaders...

ron minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Tue Mar 9 09:51:01 CET 2004


On 9 Mar 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> The Linux kernel is my favored candidate as a general purpose bootloader.

yes, assuming it fits. We didn't call it linuxbios for no reason: the plan
has always been to use linux. We got forced into other options for space
reasons at first.

The attraction of FILO is that it lets users, today, boot an install CDROM 
and load up a system.

ron





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