Booting from floppy

[Eric W. Biederman]

Adam Sulmicki <adam at cfar.umd.edu> writes:

> > > people first see "LinuxBIOS", misinterpretation does seem to be
> > > common. "LinuxBIOS" does *not* mean "a BIOS for Linux" - for one
> > > thing, Linux does needs no BIOS. The project's original intention was
> > > to put Linux in a mobo rom *instead* of a legacy PC BIOS.
> >
> > it's this way for historical reasons and it almost seems too late to
> > change. But Garzik really called this freebios so there's no reason not to
> > pick that up at some point.
> 
> Not to mention "EtherBOOT" that boots from IDE.

That one is much less silly.  The primary focus is still on booting
over an ethernet network in with etherboot...

Things do tend to expand their functionality when we touch them don't
they.

Another fun one is the Bochs-BIOS running on someplace besides under
Bochs....

Eric