Eric W. Biederman wrote: >>Actually, the IDE capable etherboot is about 50KB, and it can read disk, >>ethernet, FAT, >>ext2, ELF, (a.out ??) Much more cool ?? >> > >I believe the IDE capable etherboot was rather hardwired to ext2. But >I belive by removing filesystem support I can get it even smaller. This is >still on my todo though. > No, it just adopt the fsys_*.c from grub. By carefully puting more filesystem code from Grug into the Ethernet, every filesystems supported by Grub can be supported etherboot. So I said, FAT support with 50KB (it is been done here).
Ollie
