From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 25 11:22:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA08416 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 11:22:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA08397 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 11:22:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA10588; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 11:18:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdt10586; Tue Aug 25 18:18:45 1998 Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 11:18:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: John Barbee cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: freebsd on a stripped bios In-Reply-To: <71B40CA7B273D0119DBF080009B46D4003E151@server5.singular.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD doesn't use the bios. if you can load the kernel inot ram in some way and jump to it, (in 32 bit mode) then it will run just fine. On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, John Barbee wrote: > > Is it possible to run freebsd on a minimal bios? One that doesn't > include support for video, mouse or keyboard. It has support for ide > drives and a serial port for a terminal console. > > What tweaking would I have to do in the kernel to make this work? > What do I have to do with gettytab and ttys to make the console a serial > port? you need to add flags 0x30 to the config line for sio0 when configuring the kernel. (or 0x20) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message