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Date:      Thu, 15 Jun 2000 18:37:51 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: freebsd bios. 
Message-ID:  <200006160137.SAA01345@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 15 Jun 2000 19:13:55 MDT." <Pine.LNX.4.20.0006151912320.4958-100000@blue.acl.lanl.gov> 

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> here's what we can. Somebody send a kernel for an L440GX+ that has pretty
> minimal stuff. I'd prefer it to have IDE, no networking, no SCSI, i.e. a
> pretty small thing. I'll try to use it as the payload for linuxbios and
> see if it boots. 

GENERIC should work, presuming that the hardware's being set up correctly.

> The key is that freebsd may need to change a few things to make it
> bootable from cold hardware. I don't think this is for sure, but it may
> happen. I hope the team is receptive to such changes ... 

ie. "LinuxBIOS won't initialise the system correctly, so you'd better 
clean up after it"?

-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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