From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 19 20:27:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (server.geekhouse.net [64.81.6.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E66D037B544 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 20:27:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (root@john.geekhouse.net [192.168.1.18]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA02944; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 20:27:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Received: (from john@localhost) by john.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA02360; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 20:27:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john) Message-Id: <200006200327.UAA02360@john.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <33557.961352296@pinhead.parag.codegen.com> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 20:27:13 -0700 (PDT) Organization: BSD, Inc. From: John Baldwin To: Parag Patel Subject: Re: freebsd bios. Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Ronald G Minnich , "Daniel C. Sobral" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 18-Jun-00 Parag Patel wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jun 2000 07:35:51 +0900, "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: >> >>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. > > My mistake, as Ron pointed out, since loader uses the BIOS services, it > can't run when there is no BIOS. Now if someone writes a loader that > doesn't use a BIOS... Basically, you'd have to replace libi386 in src/sys/boot/i386/libi386. > -- Parag Patel -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message