> > Let's call it "Roboot". > > Something very similar exists already. Its called OpenBIOS. See > www.openbios.org for more details. > > Stefan
I've glanced over the Internet looking for OpenBIOS and other software. I've found an OpenBIOS version 1.1 that fullfills well its goals. (Can't open www.openbios.org on my PC :-( so I don't know what's new). Using Forth at boot time isn't a fresh new idea, but I believe (as you do) it's a very good one. As a start, I thought it might be interesting to have a Forth engine make use of the Grub 2's commands. Let's say it can be thought of as a script helper for situations that won't be handled by the scripting language of Grub 2. Well, it's done. But there is more than that. In fact my belief is there is a life before booting OS, and a life after the OS gives up (on users request or when it cant go on any more (windows blue screen)). A life full of many things to do: - boot an (other) OS - connect to the net to request for Roboots Web assistance - partition disks and other flavours - examine current configuration, diagnostic misfits - add a new OS in the PC - advertise central server of boot events - look for email incoming and decide not to boot if theres nothing new - have a calculator, play cards, etc. You might be interested in ? I don't know what Marco, Yoshinori and others would like to do for Grub 3 to X, so I just ask. Even if it happens to be two different projects, I kind of believe one will gain from the other. _________________________________________ Eric Salomé - Paris - France _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
