Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 14:44:30 +0000 From: Mike Bristow <mike@urgle.com> To: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels Message-ID: <20000112144430.A4818@lindt.urgle.com> In-Reply-To: <387BF513.8A2D607E@nwlink.com>; from rjoseph@nwlink.com on Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 07:29:23PM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000111190059.11092B-100000@workhorse.iMach.com> <387BF513.8A2D607E@nwlink.com>
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On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 07:29:23PM -0800, 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? About the only thing that I really miss, going from `real' unix to pc unix is the ability to do _anything_ with a serial console. A bios that can do it's thang over the serial port exists. But it's not very common. -- Mike Bristow, Geek At Large ``Beware of Invisible Cows'' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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