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Date:      Sat, 23 May 1998 17:28:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Marc Nicholas <marc@hippocampus.net>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: BIOS bootstrap? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.980523172720.12194B-100000@neuron.hippocampus.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980523140645.28348A-100000@current1.whistle.com>

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On Sat, 23 May 1998, Julian Elischer wrote:

> That's what we do on the Interjet.
> We altered our BIOS to use com2 as it's POST output.

What BIOS are you using?? What kind of processor module/SBC?

> Does anyone know if there is a FreeBIOS project anywhere?

Unfortunately I haven't found anything that can be reasonably used on a
modern system. Chipsets have gotten complicated, there are many possible
boards to try and support, etc. etc. There were some free BIOS's, but I
think you'd have a hard time grafting them onto modern equipment.



-marc

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