FILO fixups

Li-Ta Lo ollie at lanl.gov
Mon Nov 1 13:41:01 CET 2004


On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 12:00, YhLu wrote:
> The reason for put filo in etherboot.
> 1. It can let boot from HD or net according to CMOS setting.
> 2. Etherboot can produce zelf. We may got more space to put other stuff such
> as USB support...
> 3. Etherboot structure and support...
> 
> I may check if filo.zlef only include FILO ..., even it is not, we still can
> make it clean.
> 

You have the same blind spot as Eric. For many people, boot over net is
irrelevant. Why do they need to live with the overhead of network 
protocol stack and driver if all they want to to boot form some
mass storage device ?

Ollie





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