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You could probably still do this. I remember a thing called menuetos, written mostly in assembly and fitting a single floppy drive while still having a decent
by znpy 2y ago
You could probably still do this.
I remember a thing called menuetos, written mostly in assembly and fitting a single floppy drive while still having a decent ui and some drivers. You could probably fit that in a normal bios chip and/or boot it as a efi payload.
Imo it’s mostly about nobody having tried that yet (at least afaik).
- cosmic_cheese 2y agoI’ve been waiting for someone to do something more interesting with EFI. It’s extremely capable and could easily host a minimal recovery environment that would be invaluable in many situations, particularly on laptops which might be out in the field away from recovery tools when things break.
- userbinator 2y agoI’ve been waiting for someone to do something more interesting with EFI The recovery capabilities you mention have existed before EFI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splashtop_OS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splashtop_OS
- znpy 2y agofrom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splashtop_OS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splashtop_OS : > Splashtop can work with a 512 MB flash memory embedded on the PC motherboard. Not really a regular bios chip though :)