Well, the thing is that if you don't have access to the BIOS anyhow,
then you're really down to the stuff you can do out of initrd anyhow
(except select the kernel itself, but I don't really know how useful
that capability is, except on architectures like ARM/Netwinder where
there is a flash ROM big enough to hold the initial booting kernel and
that's simply how it boots... now one may very well see that as big
enough an advantage to generalize these across all architectures.)
Either way, what I'm trying to accomplish with lbcon is different --
it's a tool for bootstrapping the initrd and select boot options
(including other operating systems); and non-driver (i.e. BIOS) access
to disks is pretty much a requirement for that, I'm afraid, since it's
going to manipulate the very disk drivers involved.
-hpa
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