From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 12 10: 3:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (GndRsh.dnsmgr.net [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D383154A5; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 10:03:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA28991; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 10:03:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <200001121803.KAA28991@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels In-Reply-To: <200001121739.JAA02551@mass.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Jan 12, 2000 09:39:31 am" To: msmith@FreeBSD.ORG (Mike Smith) Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 10:03:40 -0800 (PST) Cc: mike@urgle.com (Mike Bristow), rjoseph@nwlink.com (R Joseph Wright), freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I still maintain that the /right/ solution is for the BIOS to have > > a ``while booting shovel data out COM1 and accept data from COM1 as if > > it were my keyboard'' option. > > > > I've seen them on (I think) NCR boxes. > > Intel do this on their server boxes, to the extent that if you have a > colour ANSI terminal you can run fullscreen expansion BIOS tools like eg. > Adaptec's. I'm reasonably sure that it's just an extra-price option from > the major BIOS vendors. And the Intel BIOS code was written by a FreeBSD user, and some times hacker... who now and again shows up on the mailling lists... -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message