Subject: Re: serial consoles and BIOS console redirection
To: Eric Schnoebelen <eric@cirr.com>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/20/2002 07:47:03
> - to be PCs?
>
> 	Well, mostly because I still have to run some Linux/i386

same as many people "have to" run windoze.

no you don't have to. but it won't be easy

> applications on the boxes.  Nearly everything else doing
> anything useful/important is already running on SUN or DEC hardware.
>
> - > 	Maybe it's time for me to dig into the boot process
> - > on the intel boxes.. (ugh!)
> -
> - These days with most motherboards having FlashRAM for the BIOS,
> - perhaps some eager PC hackers should reverse engineer some real
> - console support patches for various popular BIOS models....
>
> 	I know some of the Linux folks are working on a
> ``LinuxBIOS'', but I have no idea if they're getting it right
> either (let alone if it would boot anything besides Linux.)
>
no it boots only from ext2