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On 10/11/13 12:39 AM, Teske, Devin wrote:
> On Oct 10, 2013, at 9:06 AM, Julian Elischer wrote:
>
>> On 10/10/13 1:05 AM, Teske, Devin wrote:
>>> I'm late to the party again ;D (didn't realize the rcs thread had turned BE)
>>>
>>> Both problems can be solved.
>>> The loading of the kernel *after* choosing your boot device is trivial.
>>> We've been doing it at $work for *years* (almost a decade?)
>>>
>>> I can put that in, whenever. Probably at the same time as implementing
>>> the live/dynamic BE menus for selecting the root device.
>> yeah it always pisses me of when the menu comes up after the kernel is loaded because 99% of the time, I'm in the menu because I want to boot a DIFFERENT kernel..
>>
> Same thought I had about 7 years ago. After hearing that others
> (especially you, Julian) think the same thoughts...
>
> I'm happily ready to merge a patch from VICOR to achieve this.
PLEASE!..   put it up for review somewhere...

I wonder if we can we get a reviewboard instance for the project some 
time?