From owner-freebsd-small Sat May 23 14:55:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA06833 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Sat, 23 May 1998 14:55:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gatekeeper.whistle.com (gatekeeper.whistle.com [207.76.204.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA06774 for ; Sat, 23 May 1998 14:55:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id OAA11207 for ; Sat, 23 May 1998 14:25:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpo.whistle.com(alpo 207.76.204.38) by gatekeeper via smap (V2.0) id xma011204; Sat, 23 May 98 14:25:15 -0700 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA15536; Sat, 23 May 1998 14:10:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd015533; Sat May 23 21:10:40 1998 Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 14:10:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Marc Nicholas cc: "Randal S. Masutani" , 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 what is Mr BIOS? On Sat, 23 May 1998, Marc Nicholas wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message