I've had the same idea with an old Mac Clasic II, but the mac hardware
is a little more tricky.

You could probably start by replacing the BIOS code with a primitive
machine monitor and go from there. I hope you know your PC
archetecture.


On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 02:03:36PM +0800, Ricardo Chen wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> Has anybody any experience to use NetBSD on an IA32 based embedded
> system without BIOS?  Can I simply use a boot loader to replace PC BIOS
> to load and run the kernel? I searched the list and also read the source
> code idn't find enough hint to say can or cannot... If someone has the
> experience, could you please give me some help?
> 
> Thanks!
> Ricardo
>