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SubjectRe: Linux/ix86 booting process and BIOS
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, aasloan wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, root@chaos.analogic.com wrote:
> > If you find a BIOS it will be in 'C' and Intel asm. There's no way
> > anybody would have used AT&T (chicken v.s. egg problem).
> >
> > I agree the code is a mess. Further:
> > o There is no makefile.
> > o There is no way to make the executable file that does something,
> > possibly the final relocations and checksum (no source).
> > o The 'ASM' sources will assemble. However, they don't link into
> > a BIOS rom. Something is missing.
> >
>
> If your looking at the same file I am, the makefile is bios.mak, its
> an nmake makefile.

Okay thanks.


Cheers,
Dick Johnson

Penguin : Linux version 2.3.41 on an i686 machine (800.63 BogoMips).


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