On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Strohm Thomas (FV/SLD) * wrote:
> My question now is:
> - To which extent is the initialization stuff performed by the BIOS repeated
> by Linux kernel?
Everything the BIOS gets "wrong"......
> - Which tasks really have to be performed by the BIOS? What does Linux rely
> on?
Nothing soon, I would like to see the DEATH of BIOS calls!
> - Could one imagine a BIOS which (basically) just initializes IDE,
> loads LILO and jumps to it? (assuming that we boot from hda).
Oh, if life was that simple, I would not be here!
Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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