> > That's the idea. Eric is pushing for a scheme where by we would chain-load > > to the first sector of a partition. I agree that's a good idea. But we'd > > need to put another bootloader with polled ide and no BIOS dependance > > How do you place such a bootloader ? As an addition to the BIOS or as an > replacement, so that the kernel can do the complete initialisation ?
?... I think there's a misunderstanding. In such a scheme, there would be a VERY minimal bootloader on the flash with linuxbios. It would then load a LARGER bootloader which lives on your hard drive, just like LILO does. > > > there before we can do that.. I'll be able to release a bootloader > > whereby you give it the path to your kernel first. It's all a matter of > > where we shove off the bulk of a bootloader scheme in the long run, and > > if they have an ide hard drive than it should be on the ide hard drive. >
