[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