[LinuxBIOS] [RFC] Payload selector method

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Sat Sep 8 20:36:33 CEST 2007


On 9/8/07, Alex Beregszaszi <alex at rtfs.hu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After playing around with lbmenu, I came up with the following idea to
> select payloads in a clean way.
>
> 1a, linuxbios parses the payload number cmos position, and starts the
> selected payload

or, if it is out of range, an emergency payload :-)


> Imho it is better to have always the 1a, way running, but we have to be
> sure the cmos contains a valid value.

we want an unattended boot ability.

I hope to try lbmenu out soon.

ron




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