On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 16:01, Christer Weinigel wrote: > Cons: > > Not as flexible as a normal BIOS.
I know what you mean ;-), but I don't think this is quite the right thing to say... as a key point of LinuxBIOS is its flexibility... ... If you want to be able to boot without a VGA card.. ... If you want to be able to preserve kernel state information over reboots etc. ....LinuxBIOS is flexible from the developer's standpoint... However, LinuxBIOS is immature - it doesn't support as much hardware/boot devices as a "traditional" BIOS. So, given an inflexible feature set (boot typically from any local device via a local VGA screen/keyboard to run your mainstream desktop operating system) a traditional BIOS is quite flexible about what hardware you can boot from and what motherboards it supports.... ..Anyway, I think linuxBIOS is "flexible" compared with a traditional BIOS, but has, currently, less support for the available hardware i.e immature. Hope that helps! Ian. _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
