From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 11 19:32:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5889F154EC for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 19:32:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rjoseph@nwlink.com) Received: from nwlink.com (ip248.r8.d.bel.nwlink.com [207.202.173.248]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA14386 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 19:32:48 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <387BF513.8A2D607E@nwlink.com> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 19:29:23 -0800 From: R Joseph Wright X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Nearly 100% of "modern" Flash Memory devices either emulate an IDE drive > in Hardware or have emulate a standard BIOS disk device using some sort of > BIOS driver, usually in such a way so that it will boot a DOS-like OS from > it. 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? -- Best Regards, Joseph You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. Colette. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message