Joseph Smith wrote: > > Scanning for drives has been considered before but always dismissed > > because it will potentially take a very long time for FILO to start > > if it needs to wait for drives to start. > > Doesn't the drive have to start for FILO to invoke GRUB?
FILO never invokes GRUB. FILO has it's own code that implements GRUB-like functionality. Yes, _the specified drive_ has to start before FILO can read from it. But not _every drive_ needs to be checked, because the correct device has to be specified beforehand. > > As an optional feature, everyone pretty much said they want to be > > able to do such a drive scan only a few days ago. Would be great if > > you want to hack on it! :) > > I do think this would be better approach. I don't think scanning a > top level directory would take very long. The issue is not with filesystem structure. The issue is with drives. Scanning drives takes some time, at least a few seconds per drive or so. Once the correct drive has been found, finding the boot files is usually quick because only few sectors needs to be read. //Peter -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
