From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 18 16:32: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-206-88-224.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.206.88.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C36737BAD5 for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 16:31:58 -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 QAA05452; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 16:36:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200006182336.QAA05452@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Parag Patel Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd bios. In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 18 Jun 2000 11:18:16 PDT." <33557.961352296@pinhead.parag.codegen.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 16:36:48 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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