Q: hardware bootloaders...

[Eric W. Biederman]

Does any one know of any bootloaders that drive the hardware
directly.  For things like floppies, or harddrives?

After my success with reusing memtest86, and etherboot
I wonder if there are any other similiar things we could
easily reuse, without a lot of effort.

For the complicated case we definentily need to build
a bootloader on top of the linux kernel but for the simpler case
I can definetily see the value in something smaller.

Eric