genodelabs/genode — Issue #94: Boot from USB, autoprobing of boot device
Author: nfeske
Created: 2012-01-25 12:26:11+00:00
State: open
Labels: feature

For the next Live CD, we want to support booting Genode from both CDROM and USB stick. Thanks to isolinux, the first boot stage (loading the static parts of the system including the ROM modules provided by core) does already support this scenario. However, for the subsequent loading of data from the boot medium, we have to use Genode's ATAPI driver or USB storage driver respectively. Hence, we need a mechanism to spawn both drivers and decide which driver to use.