via epia, pchips 787cl+

[Eric W. Biederman]

Alexander Amelkin <spirit at reactor.ru> writes:

> Hello!
> 
>   The linuxbios status comments for via epia say "etherboot" only.
>   Does that mean that epia won't be able to boot from a local ide hard
>   drive? 

Nope, etherboot supports booting from the local ide hard drive,
at least as well as the native LinuxBIOS IDE code does.

>   Are there any plans to implement the support for
>   lilo/whatever booting from the hard drive on epia?

Things are gradually improving.  Those of us who think a development
machines has a 1000 motherboards don't always see the point in booting
off a local hard drive :)

Eric