On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 08:00:11PM -0700, Jordan Crouse wrote: > On 30/11/07 03:33 +0100, Uwe Hermann wrote: > > [New thread] > > > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 08:25:32PM -0500, Richard Smith wrote: > > > That said, here in the OLPC offices we have still have periodic pain > > > involved with USB booting. A lot of usb sticks are just trash. The > > > generic case requires up to several seconds of delay before you can > > > access > > > them. > > > > I'm curious, what do you use for USB booting? Is it suitable for > > generic LinuxBIOS use, too? Both FILO and Etherboot seem pretty broken > > wrt USB at the moment, GRUB2 doesn't have support at all AFAIK. > > They use OFW.
Sure, but how is the "boot from USB" functionality implemented? Forth code? C code? Can we port it to LinuxBIOS/FILO/GRUB somehow? Uwe. -- http://www.hermann-uwe.de | http://www.holsham-traders.de http://www.crazy-hacks.org | http://www.unmaintained-free-software.org -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
