Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

Scott Long writes:

>  Are you talking about putting a minimal USB stack into the boot
>  loader?  That _certainly_ cannot fit into boot0, and I doubt that
>  it can fit into boot1.  It might be possible for
>  boot2/BTX/loader, but that's also quite a bit of work.

	As far as I know - and I would _love_ to be wrong - USB
keyboards are not recognized before the kernel proper loads.  This
means I have to keep a PS2 keybaord attached to interrupt the
countdown and make the jump to sub-ligh\\\\\, er. single user.  I
have no idea what stage of the boot process this is; all I know I
have to use two keyboards where I should only need one.

>  I take it that your BIOS does not provide keyboard emulation for
>  you?  If not, I guess that it makes it difficult to boot to DOS.

	The motherboard is an Asus P4S533 with an Award BIOS.  I can't
take the machine down to check on any keyboard emulation settings.
(And the box has always been 100% Microsoft-free.)



					Robert Huff