Intel says the PC BIOS will be replaced with 'EFI'

[Travis Roy]

yah, think of openfirmware like grub.. they work the same way almost.

messing with LinuxPPC on the powerbook I had to mess around with
openfirmware on the powerbook, it was very cool.


----- Original Message -----
From: <pll at lanminds.com>
To: <bscott at ntisys.com>
Cc: "Greater NH Linux User Group" <discuss at gnhlug.org>
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: Intel says the PC BIOS will be replaced with 'EFI'


>
> In a message dated: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 11:13:09 EST
> bscott at ntisys.com said:
>
> >http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2130826,00.html
> >
> >  Comments?
>
> About Fsck'ing time :)
>
> Seriously, if what Travis says:
>
>   Travis> They're just switching to openfirmware.
>
> is true, then I'll be quite happy.  One of the nice things about
> working with Sun hardware was that if there was a problem with the
> OS, it was always trivial to go into the EEPROM and change the
> configuration to boot off of a different device without having to
> later reboot and change back later.  Another really nice thing about
> Sun's use of openfirmware, was that it was programmable from the OS
> level, so once the machine had actually booted, you could change the
> boot device for the next time.
>
> These types of things, along with native net-boot capability made
> things like Solaris' JumpStart really nice to work with.
>
> PC's just aren't there now.  PXE is a start, but that's not standard
> across machines, and is NIC dependant.  Additionally, you still need
> to muck with the BIOS to make sure it supports net-boots, and you
> need to then separately configure the NIC(s) to boot.  It's mess and
> it's long past time they fix it :)
>
> --
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> Seeya,
> Paul
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