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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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