[coreboot] LinuxTag 2008 Status
Joseph Smith
joe at settoplinux.org
Tue Jun 3 02:09:27 CEST 2008
> > > - Uwe expressed a desire to select a chain from the menu
> > >
> >
> > No offense, but IMHO that is a bit overboard.
>
> Not as overboard as it might sound though - say for example that we make
> a payload specifically to populate the legacy tables. A boot menu could
> offer the choice between Windows and Linux, and if you chose the Windows
> path it would run the legacy table payload followed by the windows loader,
> while the Linux path would just run grub2 (or FILO). Its not a crazy
> idea,
> and its the sort of thing we need to be prepared for.
>
I really like this idea :-)
Thanks,
Joseph Smith
Set-Top-Linux
www.settoplinux.org
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