[openbeos] Re: Stage 1 Bootloader

Eike Dehling <e.e.dehling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> >it's small enough to provide us the required documentation to access the 
> >hard drive, in real mode, without depending on the BIOS.
> 
> Is accessing the harddrive without bios then all you have to complain about 
> grub? thats about 100 lines of assembly. and: why does a computer have a 
> BIOS? it's there to make the programmers life easier. not to make it harder 
> by avoiding the premade code. 


Not when it's wrong. Not all BIOSes can do it. Mine, for instance. I need some 
bootloader which is able to boot OSs directly. Bootman does. NUNI does. GRUB 
does not.


> It is probably slower than doing it yourself. 
> but it's a bootloader! speed is in my opinion not the ultimate goal there.


That's not the issue!


> A question: grub uses LBA acces for disks that support it. Is that still 
> via the BIOS?


Yes, as it depends on int13 extensions.


> Keep smiling. It just a discussion, not a fight ;)


And who's fighting? Not me.




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