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Date:      Wed, 12 Jan 2000 14:44:30 +0000
From:      Mike Bristow <mike@urgle.com>
To:        R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels
Message-ID:  <20000112144430.A4818@lindt.urgle.com>
In-Reply-To: <387BF513.8A2D607E@nwlink.com>; from rjoseph@nwlink.com on Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 07:29:23PM -0800
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000111190059.11092B-100000@workhorse.iMach.com> <387BF513.8A2D607E@nwlink.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.

-- 
Mike Bristow, Geek At Large	         ``Beware of Invisible Cows''


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