New Boot-Loader

dieterbsd at engineer.com dieterbsd at engineer.com
Mon Mar 28 18:11:27 UTC 2011


> Please note that graphical loaders are not very serial console 
friendly ;-)

Yes!  Real computers have RS-232 consoles.  And please stick with
plain ASCII text.  The current bootloader is at best ugly and at
worst unusable on some terminals.  AFAIK the bootloader doesn't have
termcap/terminfo available.

The default needs to work everywhere.  A bootloader does not need to be 
pretty.
If you want a pretty bootloader, put it off to the side and those who 
both can
and want to run it can enable it once the basics are running.




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