From owner-freebsd-small Sat May 23 09:04:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA04029 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Sat, 23 May 1998 09:04:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from neuron.hippocampus.net (neuron.hippocampus.net [204.138.241.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA04024 for ; Sat, 23 May 1998 09:04:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@hippocampus.net) Received: from localhost (marc@localhost) by neuron.hippocampus.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA11621; Sat, 23 May 1998 12:04:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 12:04:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Marc Nicholas To: "Randal S. Masutani" cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BIOS bootstrap? In-Reply-To: <199805230112.PAA07832@oldyeller.comtest.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Randal: On Fri, 22 May 1998, Randal S. Masutani wrote: > The input/output through COM1 must be done with BIOS support. If you do not > have BIOS support for this then I am not sure what else you can do. My BIOS allows me to write extensions... > I am currently doing this on a PC/104 board from Mesa Electronics > www.mesanet.com, Model 4c27 386SX-40MHz, 8MB RAM, 8MB Flash, Ethernet, and the > usual PC AT ports. Its a great little board. > What kind of board are you using? A Toronto Microelectronics Pentium SBC. They use the Mr. BIOS kit to graft a BIOS onto the board. There is also int 13 Flash available on the board and a other SBC stuff like soft/hard watchdogs. -marc -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Hippocampus OSD, Inc. "Industrial Strength Internet Solutions" vox://416.979.9000 fax://416.979.8223 http://www.hippocampus.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message