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Date:      Sun, 18 Jun 2000 11:18:16 -0700
From:      Parag Patel <parag@cgt.com>
To:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: freebsd bios. 
Message-ID:  <33557.961352296@pinhead.parag.codegen.com>
In-Reply-To: Message from Parag Patel <parag@pinhead.parag.codegen.com>  of "Fri, 16 Jun 2000 20:30:22 PDT." <6094.961212622@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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