It would be really great if whatever solution results from this discussion were also applicable to other architectures than x86. My personal interest is in PowerPC (especially OldWorld PowerMacs) and I'm willing to help as much as I can with the testing process (I'm not a developer)
Rick On Jun 1, 2007, at 8:34 AM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Thursday 31 May 2007 20:47, peter green wrote:Since we already know the bios can read the users floppy drive (or they wouldn't have been booting off it) it would seem to make sense to loadall the floppies BEFORE loading linux and abandoning the bios's services.