From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 25 14:21:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA14922 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 25 May 1996 14:21:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA14916 for ; Sat, 25 May 1996 14:21:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA14640 for ; Sat, 25 May 1996 23:21:46 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA08514 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 25 May 1996 23:21:46 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id WAA27311 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 25 May 1996 22:53:17 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199605252053.WAA27311@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: The view from here (was Re: ISDN Compression Load on CPU) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 22:53:17 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199605251829.NAA07152@sierra.zyzzyva.com> from Randy Terbush at "May 25, 96 01:29:07 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Randy Terbush wrote: > I've yet to find a Triton BIOS that will boot without a video > card installed. Have you? Too bad AMI seems to be off the air. Their BIOSes were able to do all the POST error communication with beep codes, so they could be configured to run without a video card. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)