Am Samstag, 18. November 2006 02:18 schrieb Oleg Verych:
> > I do too. But there are difficulties with doing it. Just as one example,
> > consider trying to boot from a USB pendrive. At that point there _is_ no
> > userspace available to provide the blacklist entries!
>
> Do you mean usb flash drives?
>
> So, if yes. BIOS knows how to boot from it, right? Kernel isn't for
> itself, right? Thus, i think before (any) rootfs image is ready, use
> BIOS. If one is ready use userspace.
The BIOS knows how to read an OS image into memory.
The disk access methods it provides are real mode code. We can't
use that without incredible pain. The kernel must be able to mount the
root fs, which means reading from media/disk/stick ...
Regards
Oliver
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