From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 18 22:16: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-206-88-224.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.206.88.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D095E37BBB9 for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 22:16:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA06363; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 22:20:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200006190520.WAA06363@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd bios. In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 19 Jun 2000 13:49:36 +0900." <394DA660.F3D623E1@newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 22:20:49 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. Yup. Including a driver for each different motherboard (or in some cases, each motherboard family). -- \\ 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-hackers" in the body of the message