Re: [Etherboot-developers] mknbi-1.2-7rc2 released

[<ke...@us...>]

>Sorry to say this again, but I prefer using GRUB together with
>`etherboot', and so nobody has to deal with `mknbi' in connection
>with UNIX systems (for DOS mknbi is already needed so far).

There's no accounting for taste. :-)

GRUB suffers from the problem that it uses another copy of the network
driver so you have to decide ahead of time which hardware you want to
support when building GRUB. Ideally secondary loaders should be able to
use the boot ROMs network driver. Hmm, sounds very much like PXE. I wish
I had the time to rework Etherboot's architecture to allow callbacks so
that secondary loaders can do network operations. Not necessarily PXE
style, just having callbacks would be nice.