From owner-freebsd-small Sat May 23 14:55:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA06796 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Sat, 23 May 1998 14:55:17 -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 OAA06761 for ; Sat, 23 May 1998 14:54:54 -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 RAA12204; Sat, 23 May 1998 17:28:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 17:28:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Marc Nicholas To: Julian Elischer cc: Mike Smith , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BIOS bootstrap? In-Reply-To: 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 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 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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