mitcoes

January 04, 2011 at 4:38am

I miss a feature in all BIOS or EFI allowing to boot from ISOs stored at pendrives or hdds.

 

of course you can do it with GRUB/BURG, but each distro or OS has its own way of booting

 

A feature that would mount ISO images - better if it is copied to a virtual RAM disk -

would make fast as hell to install any OS or to run any repair distro.

 

I think it would be easy to implement an ISO /HDD/FLASH reader from the BIOS/EFI and

that this "reader "would support open source hdd/flash formats as ext2/3/4 & btrfs

and propietary disk formats as FAT & NTFS if MS allows it

 

This feature should read the first boot disk if it is has not a MBR looking for *.ISO images

and display a menu with all of them if there are several.

 

I will upgrade my BIOS or buy my next motherboard with this amazing feature I do not why nobody has implemented it yet. 

triclops41

January 03, 2011 at 9:48pm

but what happened to all the talk about uefi bios loading much faster than the old bios?

 

everyone seems to have dropped that bullet point.  does that mean it won't happen?

Zachary K.

January 03, 2011 at 8:46pm

oh wow, asus is bringing sexy to the bios.

edit: i hear cell phone interferance. lol, thought it was mine and moved it to the other side of the room.

chronium

January 03, 2011 at 7:21pm

Drools, I wish I could use it now on my computer.

Baer

January 03, 2011 at 7:09pm

Great overview. I can't wait to see this at CES this week. Also, Gordon, you always ask the questions we want answers to. Thanks.