On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 09:15:16AM +0000, Brendan Simon wrote:
> The only bios dependency that I know of is that the bios determines how to
> boot your OS (Linux, DOS, or whatever). It generally reads the MBR from
> the hard disk or floppy disk to find out where the executable lives on the
> physical media. It then loads that code to RAM and runs it. Once the
> linux kernel is running I don't think there is much dependecy on the bios.
Close. The BIOS is also responsible for setting up the parameters of
your chipset and the rest of your motherboard. It would be difficult
to get rid of it; functionally, _something_ has to do that work.
Cheers,
-- jra
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