Subject: Re: Please help on embedded system without BIOS
To: Ricardo Chen <ricardo@huawei-3com.com>
From: None <thrashbarg@kaput.homeunix.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/13/2004 15:44:56
I've had the same idea with an old Mac Clasic II, but the mac hardware
is a little more tricky.
You could probably start by replacing the BIOS code with a primitive
machine monitor and go from there. I hope you know your PC
archetecture.
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 02:03:36PM +0800, Ricardo Chen wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> 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?
>
> Thanks!
> Ricardo
>