giving the user a boot option

[Eric W. Biederman]

prl-linuxbios at sychron.com writes:

> > My point was that I am only focused on booting linux, and so the legacy BIOS
> > is just flash baggage after linux gets going.  Grub offers some booting
> > flexibility that I need, and since it is C code, also is more easily
> > customized for some other things I need to do during boot (embedded
> > application).
> 
> Linuxbios + Etherboot, surely?
> 
> You can give the command line by hand from the serial console or via
> DHCP. Start off with the NFS root, administered remotely. Then populate
> the disk and for subsequent disk boots, Etherboot has an IDE driver. No
> direct support for SCSI controllers, but I think you'll be hard pressed
> to get that without legacy BIOS.

And you can set LinuxBIOS options to say you want to boot off of the
network of off of local IDE.

As for SCSI if you want it writing an etherboot  driver should not be too bad...
 
> Eric Biederman ported Etherboot directly to LinuxBIOS, so no legacy BIOS
> needed. It's mostly C and Ken Yap is talking about embedding lua
> (www.lua.org), so now would be a good time to talk about what
> customisation you need.

I think that is mostly with regards to network loaded code, from
mknbi/mkelfImage or similiar.

Eric