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

[Eric W B. <ebi...@ln...>]

ke...@us... (Ken Yap) writes:

> >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.

Yes definitely, and with LinuxBIOS I can also put it in a CMOS option.
But putting that into an appropriate call is not to bad once the rest
is abstracted. 

The interesting part is also having the boot from disk code integrate
with the external menu code :)

On the escape key side there are a couple of semi important things.
1) It should be fairly easy for a user to cope with (menu).
2) It should be expect friendly so if necessary it can be scripted
   over the serial line.
3) For power users it would be nice if we could just type in an
   etherboot specific url.  Something roughly like lilo in command
   line mode.

I am going to start with a compiled in priority and then get
the rest.

Eric