[syslinux] Returning to syslinux bootloader

[H. Peter Anvin]

Miller, Shao wrote:
> It's kind of funny; it seems like we are almost talking about a "pre-OS
> hibernation file."  So how about this, a COM32 module which scans
> _all_of_memory_ and makes a state file in a sparse format, to avoid
> contiguous zeroes.  This state file would clearly include the
> boot-loader itself and everyone else.  Tricky part would be moving the
> state out of the way while memory is being restored.
> 
> Restoring such a state would obviously do little good for hardware.
> 

The problem is that it wouldn't really work all that well.  It's not
just memory, it's overall machine state, most of which lives in the
hardware.

	-hpa