Re: No BIOS, load Linux fr EEPROM

Petko Manolov (petkan@varel.bg)
Mon, 14 Sep 1998 14:33:04 +0000

David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> Anyway I don't think the kernel actually uses it unless you're
> booting off a floppy. The _loader_ will use it, but not the kernel AFAIK.

There is some cases when reboot is made thru BIOS
(look at .../i386/kernel/process.c). May be other,
more significant pieces of code depends from BIOS.

Petkan

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