Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 16:36:48 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Parag Patel <parag@cgt.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd bios. Message-ID: <200006182336.QAA05452@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 18 Jun 2000 11:18:16 PDT." <33557.961352296@pinhead.parag.codegen.com>
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> On Sat, 17 Jun 2000 07:35:51 +0900, "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > > >Loader(8) runs using BIOS services, and loads the kernel from any drive > >that BIOS recognizes. It has also been enhanced with PXE knowledge, so > >he can load from that to. > > My mistake, as Ron pointed out, since loader uses the BIOS services, it > can't run when there is no BIOS. Now if someone writes a loader that > doesn't use a BIOS... You could easily do this, just as soon as you find a motherboard vendor that will tell you how to initialise all their hardware. -- \\ 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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