From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 12 6:44:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from lindt.urgle.com (lindt.urgle.com [195.173.172.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 674AF1551B for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 06:44:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@urgle.com) Received: from mike by lindt.urgle.com with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 128P0g-0001G1-00; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 14:44:30 +0000 Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 14:44:30 +0000 From: Mike Bristow To: R Joseph Wright Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels Message-ID: <20000112144430.A4818@lindt.urgle.com> References: <387BF513.8A2D607E@nwlink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <387BF513.8A2D607E@nwlink.com>; from rjoseph@nwlink.com on Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 07:29:23PM -0800 X-Rated: cryptographic, Cocaine Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 07:29:23PM -0800, R Joseph Wright wrote: > Which brings up the question that keeps nagging at me: How possible is > it to create a pc bios that is geared towards BSD/linux? This would > include its own lightweight repair shell. Couldn't this solve a lot of > problems with pc hardware, to have a unix-oriented bios? About the only thing that I really miss, going from `real' unix to pc unix is the ability to do _anything_ with a serial console. A bios that can do it's thang over the serial port exists. But it's not very common. -- Mike Bristow, Geek At Large ``Beware of Invisible Cows'' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message