> > This has been discussed several times before. The proper solution is to > > teach the bios how to boot off SCSI devices. IIRC support for virtio > > devices already exists, implementing support for the SCSI controller > > shouldn't be that much harder. > > Couldn't we just have an option rom for the SCSI controller? The same way > the VGABIOS is a rewrite of a VGA BIOS for the Cirrus Logic...
Right, that may be the best way of implementing it. IIRC there are some complications because of the ways the different BIOS interfaces interact, but I expect these are fixable. Paul