Re: Booting over the serial port - how about parallel?

[Eric W. Biederman]

Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I have a pretty simple and stupid command interpreter (shell) called KISS
> that I could plug in. What do you think?

Where to draw the line is a tough call.  My gut impression
is that a command interpreter tends to cross the line of a minimal
bootloader. 

Personally I think the DOS strategy of trying each bootable device
in turn is fine if all you need is something that is stupid and works
most of the time.

Eric