From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 16 15:35: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62B1137B95E for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 15:34:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p10-dn01kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.11]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id HAA10510; Sat, 17 Jun 2000 07:34:54 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <394AABC7.AD978219@newsguy.com> Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 07:35:51 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ronald G Minnich Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd bios. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ronald G Minnich wrote: > > my bad. Anyway we're going to try a kernel next week that parag sent me. Mmmm. I saw no comments on my loader question. Loader(8) runs using BIOS services, and loads the kernel from any drive that BIOS recognizes. It has also been enhanced with PXE knowledge, so he can load from that to. I think that your best bet would be booting loader instead of a kernel. If your BIOS project recognizes the flash card as a disk, accessible with normal BIOS functions, then loader can work as is (minus whatever you need modified). If not, it can be changed to understand whatever you have to access the data in the flash card. Anyway, booting straight to kernel is a bad idea nowadays for many reasons. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@the.great.underground.bsdconpiracy.org "He is my minion, so he doesn't need a name." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message