Subject: Re: Please help on embedded system without BIOS
To: Ricardo Chen <ricardo@huawei-3com.com>
From: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/13/2004 01:05:43
In message <000001c4b0ea$6137f6f0$2715990a@C04909>, Ricardo Chen writes:
>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?
I have used NetBSD on IA32 systems which use a BIOS which isn't the same
as the standard "PC BIOS". But you still need SOMETHING in ROM which the
system runs at startup.
Be a hero; get Open Firmware running on x86. :P
-s