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To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>,
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Subject: Re: freebsd bios. 
In-Reply-To: Message from Parag Patel <parag@pinhead.parag.codegen.com> 
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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...


	-- Parag Patel


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