Bari Ari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ollie Lho wrote:
>
> > Bari Ari wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> How about recovery via a checksum so that if the systems fails to load
> >> the kernel it jumps to from LinuxBIOS you can recover via the keyboard
> >> with some key combination so that you can choose another boot option
> >> and/or at least see why it failed? This would not be handy for clusters
> >> but would be nice for embedded apps like SBCs, webpads and set-top-boxes.
> >>
> >
> > Since you don't have the screen nor keyboard driver in LinuxBIOS, how
> > can you do this kind of interaction ??
>
> True, you'd have to add it for these applications. Any other ideas?
A minimal kernel specialized for that application, that loads everything else.
There is still a lot of work to build a clean interface between linuxBIOS
and the rest of the world. CMOS parameters and unenumeratable
hardware details. Until that all settles down this won't get
resovled.
Eric
