On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 02:24:27AM -0800, Grant Stockly wrote:
> So I shouldn't get a hanging kernel when I fire up the kernel on my
> hardware.  :)  Will the kernel still try to get the checksum from BIOS?

Well, I don't know. Where does it hang ? while it probes hardware, or later ?

> 
> Also, if you could, could you point me to the specific file that has the
> serial information the kernel uses when booting?  I'd like to write a
> specific C segment for that routine so I can see whats happening.

Well, no, sorry. I don't know this part of the kernel well enouth.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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