Re: Q: Linux rebooting directly into linux.

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Date: Sat Nov 11 2000 - 19:32:23 EST


"Eric W. Biederman" wrote:
>
> Hmm. You must mean similiar to milo.
>
> Have fun. With linuxBIOS I'm working exactly the other way. Killing
> off the BIOS. And letting the initial firmware be just a boot loader.
> The reduction is complexity should make it more reliable.
>

... except that you have to handle every single motherboard architecture
out there now.

        -hpa

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