Booting from floppy

[Ronald G. Minnich]

On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Peter Lister wrote:

> people first see "LinuxBIOS", misinterpretation does seem to be
> common. "LinuxBIOS" does *not* mean "a BIOS for Linux" - for one
> thing, Linux does needs no BIOS. The project's original intention was
> to put Linux in a mobo rom *instead* of a legacy PC BIOS.

it's this way for historical reasons and it almost seems too late to 
change. But Garzik really called this freebios so there's no reason not to 
pick that up at some point. 

ron