From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 15 18:33:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (mg137-048.ricochet.net [204.179.137.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B3A937B998 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 18:33:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA01345; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 18:37:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200006160137.SAA01345@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Ronald G Minnich Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd bios. In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 15 Jun 2000 19:13:55 MDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 18:37:51 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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