On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 02:10:29PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > For the user interface, one could go the way with modular code, too. > Elilo, the EFI boot loader, does a nice thing there. It has a "chooser" > interface, allowing several user interfaces. Each user interface has a > name, a probe function and a choose function. The probe function can > check whether the current chooser works on the current machine (on > Itanic this could be checking UGA availability before trying to show a > graphical menu)
That sounds nice. > > Maybe, we can make FILO to have the default config file in ROM, which > > includes the filo.conf from boot device (CD or HD). > > So the config file in ROM knows how to boot Etherboot in ROM. > > But this is too complicated at the moment. > > How would that config file have to look? Something similar to the grub > menu.lst would be fitting, wouldn't it? > > title Linux > kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 console=ttyS0,115200n8 > initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd Similar, but not the same. Grub has many commands that FILO would never understand. -- Takeshi _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
