Re: [Etherboot-developers] Q: device naming....

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>Tenatively I have made the url:
>
>file:///floppy0
>file:///disk0
>
>With a +- offset to find the start of the boot file.
>
>Which is fine.
>
>I am wondering if that naming convention is find of if I should
>switch to something like:
>
>file:///fd0
>file:///hd0

Any chance of booting from SCSI in future? Flash disks? Using an
existing naming convention like Linux's has the advantage you have
a ready made stock of names.

>And on the same subject I am wondering if the old disk code
>that reads from the pcbios has enough merits to even be kept.

What does it do again? Only transfers control to the MBR IIRC?