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Date:      Thu, 8 Mar 2007 15:53:18 +0100
From:      Markus Boelter <m@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.odell@gmail.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org, Rudy Rockstar <rudyrockstar@hotmail.com>
Subject:   Re: harddrive no memory ---FreeBSD scenario
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Hi!


> Apart from wondering how you're getting the motherboard to get past
> POST without RAM, I'm wondering how you'd get the bootloader and
>
[...]

The guys at Linux/OpenBIOS did some Cache-as-RAM stuff. Maybe you can  
also put (burn) the kernel directly into the BIOS chip and bott with  
that kernel. This is just an idea out of my head - nothing tested and  
no research done in this field. :-)

Cheers
   Markus




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