Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 08:46:28 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Mike Bristow <mike@urgle.com> Cc: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels Message-ID: <200001121646.IAA02338@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 Jan 2000 14:44:30 GMT." <20000112144430.A4818@lindt.urgle.com>
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> On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 07:29:23PM -0800, R Joseph Wright wrote: > > Which brings up the question that keeps nagging at me: How possible is > > it to create a pc bios that is geared towards BSD/linux? This would > > include its own lightweight repair shell. Couldn't this solve a lot of > > problems with pc hardware, to have a unix-oriented bios? > > About the only thing that I really miss, going from `real' unix to > pc unix is the ability to do _anything_ with a serial console. > > A bios that can do it's thang over the serial port exists. But it's > not very common. www.realweasel.com ... although they've been "almost shipping" for months now. If you work out how to buy one, please let us all know. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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