Thread: Proposal/idea for a "new" bootmenu
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2008-08-10 , 20:06
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Originally Posted by josiahg777 View Post
Could something like XOSL be tweaked to fit these needs?

or GAG perhaps?

I don't know much about either of these projects, but they're open source and platform independent.

Perhaps one of them can be modified enough to suit?
The problem with those is that well, the initfs boot menu is actually a 3rd stage bootloader - the kernel is loaded already and it's actually "just" a /sbin/init placeholder What i'm proposing is "low hanging fruit" - as in, things that could be implemented easily, if designed properly, and yet have quite a lot of gain towards booting other linux-based OS'es on the tablets, both in terms of usability and in terms of providing service for boot menu addition for those OS'es