From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 11 21:14: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from workhorse.iMach.com (workhorse.iMach.com [206.127.77.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE77014BE7 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 21:13:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from forrestc@workhorse.iMach.com) Received: from localhost (forrestc@localhost) by workhorse.iMach.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA12645; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 22:12:08 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 22:12:07 -0700 (MST) From: "Forrest W. Christian" To: R Joseph Wright Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels In-Reply-To: <387BF513.8A2D607E@nwlink.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, R Joseph Wright wrote: > 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? My take on this is: Possible != Portable. Or better put, Writing a "FreeBSD-cool" bios would be relatively easy. Trying to keep it updated and/or make it work on a whole bunch of different vendor's computers wouldn't. - Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) KD7EHZ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- iMach, Ltd., P.O. Box 5749, Helena, MT 59604 http://www.imach.com Solutions for your high-tech problems. (406)-442-6648 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message