From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 15 12:11: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mercury.its.umd.umich.edu (mercury.its.umd.umich.edu [141.215.69.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 669DB37C087 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 12:11:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from juikim@engin.umd.umich.edu) Received: from elvis (elvis.umd.umich.edu [141.215.10.44]) by mercury.its.umd.umich.edu (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAAC7C; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 15:10:58 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 15:10:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Jung-uk Kim To: Alexander Langer Cc: Stefan Molnar , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anybody working on FreeBSD BIOS? In-Reply-To: <20000615204014.A25235@cichlids.cichlids.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Alexander Langer wrote: > Thus spake Stefan Molnar (stefan@csudsu.com): > > > is already supported. ( On some high end machines serial console works > > in the prom as well). > > Also on low-end machines... According to pxeboot(8) from 5.0 snapshot: pxeboot is a modified version of the system third-stage bootstrap loader(8) configured to run under Intel's Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) system. PXE is a form of smart boot ROM, built into Intel EtherExpress Pro/100 and 3Com 3c905c Ethernet cards, and Ethernet-equipped Intel motherboards. Which means I cannot use it since I don't have the NIC and I don't want to buy the hardware for this. I want 'PXE' from BIOS so that I can keep my cards. :) Second, the motherboard I have doesn't support serial console. I couldn't find any BIOS update for the mobo. Jung-uk Kim > Alex > > -- > cat: /home/alex/.sig: No such file or directory > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message