From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 18 21:29:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE68C37BB37 for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 21:29:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA32312; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 22:29:46 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id WAA53427; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 22:28:23 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200006190428.WAA53427@harmony.village.org> To: Parag Patel Subject: Re: Anybody working on FreeBSD BIOS? Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 15 Jun 2000 19:14:25 PDT." <77540.961121665@pinhead.parag.codegen.com> References: <77540.961121665@pinhead.parag.codegen.com> Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 22:28:23 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <77540.961121665@pinhead.parag.codegen.com> Parag Patel writes: : manage their rack-mount systems remotely using the serial port without : video and without a keyboard - something that few motherboards support. Might I point out that there is the console weasil (or something to that effect) that converts memory mapped video -> serial output. I haven't used them yet, however, and don't recall the URL. : One problem with flash disks and such is that by the time the machine is : ready to boot from one, it's already well past where you'd like to have : control over the BIOS settings. This is true. You have to set things up correctly in the BIOS. However, I've been booting of DOC2k and CF cards for about 6 months (no, wait, it is more like 9-10 months at this point) and this works well for our embedded systems. I looked at putting an OS image into the end of the flash used to hold the BIOS and punted on that as taking too much time and generally that it would be too hard to update. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message