Booting from floppy
Ronald G. Minnich
rminnich at lanl.gov
Sun Dec 8 23:03:00 CET 2002
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
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