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To: ws@kurt.tools.de (Wolfgang Solfrank)
Subject: Re: VPS mailing list, BSD interest? 
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Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 16:50:21 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <199610021509.RAA23721@kurt.tools.de> Wolfgang Solfrank writes:
: CHRP (Common Hardware Reference Platform) require that the firmware be able
: to load the bootcode from FAT filesystems or 9660 filesystems either directly
: from a disk or from an FDISK partition (including an extended one).

The ARC BIOS standard for MIPS based PC class machines has similar
requirements.

Warner