On 1 Dec 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Adam Agnew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Nick French wrote:
> >
> > > > I'll be able to release a bootloader
> > > > whereby you give it the path to your kernel first.
> > >
> > > Any idea of when this will be available its just what we are looking for in
> > > the short term.
> > >
> >
> > I'm working on it today actually. You have to forgive me as I'm also a
> > full time student and such, I don't get to spend as much time on just
> > linuxbios work as I'd like to, so I haven't been able to get to this again
> > till this coming weekend.
>
> On a related note I have just finished a polled floppy driver,
> so I could play with some of these ideas. I wonder if an ide driver
> would have been simpler.
>
> Anyway in a week or so I should get it checked into the tree.
>
> Eric
>
>
Hrmm, interesting. What approach did you use with this? Did you make an
attempt at reading the file off of a filesystem on the floppy or are you
assuming a raw mapped elf image (ie dd if=kernel.ebi of=/dev/fd0)?
Considering the latter is the same proceedure we'll use to chainload to
yes another bootloader in our later scheme, I anticipate your code
greatly.
As a status update, I have grub's code grafted into etherboot now and am
now replacing it's int13 based disk access with polled. cross your
fingers.
