Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 10:03:40 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: msmith@FreeBSD.ORG (Mike Smith) Cc: mike@urgle.com (Mike Bristow), rjoseph@nwlink.com (R Joseph Wright), freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels Message-ID: <200001121803.KAA28991@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <200001121739.JAA02551@mass.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Jan 12, 2000 09:39:31 am"
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> > I still maintain that the /right/ solution is for the BIOS to have > > a ``while booting shovel data out COM1 and accept data from COM1 as if > > it were my keyboard'' option. > > > > I've seen them on (I think) NCR boxes. > > Intel do this on their server boxes, to the extent that if you have a > colour ANSI terminal you can run fullscreen expansion BIOS tools like eg. > Adaptec's. I'm reasonably sure that it's just an extra-price option from > the major BIOS vendors. And the Intel BIOS code was written by a FreeBSD user, and some times hacker... who now and again shows up on the mailling lists... -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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