I've had some luck using the ide driver from TIARA in LinuxBIOS. I should have
things cleaned up enough to send out a patch on monday.
G'day,
sjames
Quoting "Eric W. Biederman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Does any one know of any bootloaders that drive the hardware
> directly. For things like floppies, or harddrives?
>
> After my success with reusing memtest86, and etherboot
> I wonder if there are any other similiar things we could
> easily reuse, without a lot of effort.
>
> For the complicated case we definentily need to build
> a bootloader on top of the linux kernel but for the simpler case
> I can definetily see the value in something smaller.
>
> Eric
>
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