Re: [ros-dev] 0.3 release plan - Again

[David Hinz]

Bernd Blaauw schrieb:
>   David Johnson schreef:
> >   I am waiting with bated breth for 0.3.
> >  I have a test system that is waiting for USB. As soon as USB is 
> >  working I will put ROS on my real hardware for testing. 
>  you could always try an
> ISO from:
>  http://svn.reactos.org/
>
>  Would "USB working" also mean "boot from USB" ? Not even MS allows
> this.
>  Sadly no PC BIOS supports "boot from FireWire", like Apples do. Guess 
>  we'd need LinuxBIOS for that, as current motherboard manufacturers 
>  don't want to pay AMI/Phoenix/Award for including the "boot from 
>  firewire" module. 
The thing with the LinuxBIOS sounds interesting, I heard
about it some 
time ago.
Do you know, if it is working on current mainboards and where I can get 
some more infos about this topic?
Maybe we could create a BIOS replacement out of freeloader, this would 
enormously increase the boot-process...
>  
>  Bernd 
Greets,

David Hinz