Concept stage — nothing built yet

The first thing you see when AdaOS wakes up.

Right now, the AdaOS live ISO boots through stock Debian GRUB2 — functional, unbranded, borrowed. AdaBoot is the idea of replacing that first screen with something that's actually AdaDo's own: a boot menu built to stack with AdaBIOS rather than live alongside it as an afterthought.

What "stacking with AdaBIOS" actually means

This isn't decided yet, and saying otherwise would be dishonest. AdaBIOS and AdaOS are the two agent-team layers of AdaDo's own BIOS/kernel/OS/cloud architecture — real, already in motion. AdaBoot's open question is where in that boot chain a branded menu belongs: does it chain-load into AdaBIOS as the very first screen, or sit as a GRUB-level layer that hands off to AdaBIOS once it starts? Both are plausible. Neither has been designed.

TODAY

Stock GRUB2, no branding

The real, currently-building AdaOS ISO uses plain Debian grub-pc — correct and working, but visually and functionally generic. There is no AdaDo-branded moment before the OS itself loads.

OPEN QUESTION

Where AdaBoot sits in the chain

Chain-loads into AdaBIOS, or sits above it as its own layer — the real design work (and the honest answer) hasn't happened yet.

Honest dependency note: Dan's own words when this was proposed: "for way later." AdaBoot is explicitly not urgent — it depends on AdaOS itself reaching a stable, shippable build first. There is no point branding the boot screen of an OS that doesn't boot reliably yet.

Where it's at

Phase 0

AdaOS reaches a real, stable ISO

The actual prerequisite. AdaBoot has nothing to brand until the base distro it boots is solid and shipping — that work is happening now, separately.

Phase 1

Decide the stacking model

Design, not guess: does AdaBoot chain-load into AdaBIOS, or sit above it? This has to be answered before any code gets written.

Phase 2

Replace stock GRUB2

A real branded boot menu, built on whichever model Phase 1 settles on.