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Re: Time to fork the netboot code?
From: |
Thierry Laronde |
Subject: |
Re: Time to fork the netboot code? |
Date: |
Thu, 10 May 2001 10:18:59 +0200 |
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On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 10:07:03AM +0200, Christoph Plattner wrote:
> I have a similar oppinion !
>[..]
>
> PS: Many boot monitors are working polling, and GRUB should become
> (or is already) the "best" boot monitor, but no Operating System !!
What is an OS is a matter of opinion. GRUB is already a mini-OS. And the
fact is that a good bootloader must be able to help you bootstrap an OS,
that is progressively increase the level of complexity the more efficient
way. For example, when GRUB detects a NIC card to try to boot from the
network, if this information can be sent in order for the system to load an
operating system with the good drivers (modules/servers) it would be great,
etc...
As explained by Okuji, until we have real memory management and --- for i386
--- v86, everything will be (more) difficult. If you are able to launch and
control a "program", you can try several drivers returning to the OS if a
timeout is reached, etc...
Cheers,
--
Thierry LARONDE, Centre de Ressources Informatiques, Archamps - France
http://www.cri74.org
PingOO, serveur de com sur distribution GNU/Linux: http://www.pingoo.org
- Time to fork the netboot code?, Chip Salzenberg, 2001/05/07
- Re: Time to fork the netboot code?, OKUJI Yoshinori, 2001/05/08
- Re: Time to fork the netboot code?, Chip Salzenberg, 2001/05/08
- Re: Time to fork the netboot code?, OKUJI Yoshinori, 2001/05/09
- Re: Time to fork the netboot code?, Chip Salzenberg, 2001/05/09
- Re: Time to fork the netboot code?, Mario Klebsch, 2001/05/09
- Re: Time to fork the netboot code?, Chip Salzenberg, 2001/05/09
- Re: Time to fork the netboot code?, Mario Klebsch, 2001/05/10
- Re: Time to fork the netboot code?, Christoph Plattner, 2001/05/10
- Re: Time to fork the netboot code?,
Thierry Laronde <=
- Re: Time to fork the netboot code?, OKUJI Yoshinori, 2001/05/10
- Re: Time to fork the netboot code?, Mario Klebsch, 2001/05/10
- Re: Time to fork the netboot code?, OKUJI Yoshinori, 2001/05/10
- Re: Time to fork the netboot code?, Mario Klebsch, 2001/05/10
- Re: Time to fork the netboot code?, Matthias Granberry, 2001/05/10
- Re: Time to fork the netboot code?, sese granola, 2001/05/10
- Re: Time to fork the netboot code?, Thierry Laronde, 2001/05/09
RE: Time to fork the netboot code?, Gregg C Levine, 2001/05/08