On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 02:49:40PM -0300, ULISSES FURQUIM FREIRE DA SILVA wrote: > Are you sure? I thought both LOBOS and LinuxBIOS aimed to be able > to boot any OS. From the LinuxBIOS homepage: > > "11/24/02: Booting Windows 2000 from a full open-source BIOS base" > > I guess you can find interesting stuff at their website.. Yeah, but those guys aren't working on replacing a running generic linux system with another operating system. Those guys are working on replacing motherboard-specific BIOS code with highly-specific "get the machine to a useable state to load another OS"... That is vastly different from a tool such as linload, which is what the original poster was after -- some way to type: # /sbin/boot-to WindowsXP and have the running linux instance dissapear in a bright flash to the windows boot splashscreen without waiting for the silly BIOS to spend a minute pretending it knows what it is doing. -- People who separate manpages from the programs they document would steal sheep. -- apologies to Goudy
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