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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




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