From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 18 21:48:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71B5E37BBB9 for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 21:48:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p24-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.89]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id NAA10011; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 13:48:42 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <394DA660.F3D623E1@newsguy.com> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 13:49:36 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Parag Patel Cc: Ronald G Minnich , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd bios. References: <33557.961352296@pinhead.parag.codegen.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Parag Patel wrote: > > On Sat, 17 Jun 2000 07:35:51 +0900, "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > > >Loader(8) runs using BIOS services, and loads the kernel from any drive > >that BIOS recognizes. It has also been enhanced with PXE knowledge, so > >he can load from that to. > > My mistake, as Ron pointed out, since loader uses the BIOS services, it > can't run when there is no BIOS. Now if someone writes a loader that > doesn't use a BIOS... Err... how is a loader that doesn't use BIOS going to access the hard disk? I truly hope the answer is not to the effect of requiring shitloads of drivers. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@the.great.underground.bsdconpiracy.org "He is my minion, so he doesn't need a name." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message