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SubjectRe: Linux/ix86 booting process and BIOS
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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