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

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

>What I am trying to do with the names is have a name for a class
>of devices.  nics, hard drive, floppy drives, cds, tapes, dislpay.  An
>average machine will normally have only one device of each class.  So
>for a simple machine the names will be unambiguous, and predictable.
>``file:///disk0'' will mean your first disk if it scsi, ide, or even
>if it is plugged into the second channel of your ide controller
>instead of the first.
>
>On top of this infrastructure I also intend to have a setup of
>bootorder where it selects which devices to boot from.

Ok, got it.

>Two pieces.
>- try_floppy_first(), read from the floppy disk, and returns to
>  the BIOS if it doesn't get an error.
>- The second case bootdisk() transfers control to the MBR.

Both cases sound like they can be replaced by the functionality of your
code.