Re: [Etherboot-developers] On filesystems and booting from disk.

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

>Basically the same code we have today except with 
>how configuration is loaded from disk is different from
>how the configuration is loaded from DHCP.
>
>The big change is the outer loop walking through each
>of the different classes of devices and trying them one by one.  The
>minor change is having a different probe, load_configuration, and load
>functions for the different classes of devices. 

Yes, that all makes sense.

You'd also need somewhere to store the priority list, or hardwire it, or
allow an escape key to choose the booting device interactively, like
some BIOSes do.