From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 15 20: 9:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8380137BA59 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 20:09:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p30-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.95]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id MAA00972; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 12:09:33 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3949997A.8BFD7BBF@newsguy.com> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 12:05:30 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ronald G Minnich Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Smith Subject: Re: freebsd bios. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ronald G Minnich wrote: > > 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. I'm cc'ing Mike here so he can correct me if I'm wrong, but... it seems loader(8) is actually what you need? If it can boot loader(8), and the storage where the rest of the system is located is BIOS-accessible, then that ought to be enough. I'd suggest taking a look at pxeloader, which is, to a certain extent, the same thing you are doing. > 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 ... We have never been in a position where we can dictate what the hardware specifications we'll be booting from are. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@the.great.underground.bsdconpiracy.org "He is my minion, so he doesn't need a name." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message