Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Jul 2000 08:31:46 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Comments wanted: Linux/i386 boot protocol doc |
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David Woodhouse wrote: > > hpa@transmeta.com said: > > It is not always sufficient -- when using M-systems flash or PXE the > > EBDA is several hundred K in size. There is no way to support this > > with the old kernels which require mucking with the 0x90000 segment. > > Hence the revised protocol. > > With M-Systems flash you don't need to use their appalling built-in > firmware which eats RAM. You can happily stick Grub in there instead, and > we've almost completed teaching Grub to drive the beast too, which makes > the whole thing actually useful. >
... assuming GRUB boots from whatever you want to boot from. This is exactly why relying on ad hoc device drivers in the boot loader doesn't really solve the problem.
-hpa
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