in my case "the last resort" would involve taking the machine apart and adding
a floppy drive *or* connecting another machine running some special software
which would download the kernel with some special protocol.
that means that the solution is not *self contained*
i broken pc would not have the h/w and/or s/w to repair a broken rom
supermicro motherboards (and i'm certainly not advocating them) have a system
whereby if you hold down some key (i forget which) when you turn on the machine
and there is a floppy in the drive - the boot code will load a new rom image
from the floppy. absolutely minimal!
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