> > Of course, the ones which truly emulate an IDE drive at the hardware level
> > just work like an IDE drive, although slower on writes.
> >
> > The BIOS ones get tricky. Obviously, if the boot loader only uses bios
> > calls to do it's dirty work, these work well, at least through the boot
> >
> Nearly 100% of "modern" Flash Memory devices either emulate an IDE drive
> in Hardware or have emulate a standard BIOS disk device using some sort of
> BIOS driver, usually in such a way so that it will boot a DOS-like OS from
> it.
Which brings up the question that keeps nagging at me: How p
hi, there!
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> =grrr. i mean 'unsigned'
>
> Yes, that helped! A call to setlocale() was also neccessary, though...
> I'll send a patch for the Jpeg port.
setlocale() is always necessary to make locales work.
/fjoe
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> > Nearly 100% of "modern" Flash Memory devices either emulate an IDE drive
> > in Hardware or have emulate a standard BIOS disk device using some sort of
> > BIOS driver, usually in such a way so that it will boot a DOS-like OS from
> > it.
>
> Which brings up the question that keeps nagging
Mike Smith wrote:
>
> >
> > > Nearly 100% of "modern" Flash Memory devices either emulate an IDE drive
> > > in Hardware or have emulate a standard BIOS disk device using some sort of
> > > BIOS driver, usually in such a way so that it will boot a DOS-like OS from
> > > it.
> >
> > Which brings u
hi, there!
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Anton wrote:
> is there way to boot fbsd3.x from dos? all ok with 2.2.8,
> but in 3.x fbsdboot.exe say 'Invalid format'.
> also i see that fbsdboot.exe is not changed since 2.xx
> it can't support elf format at all?
"Carlos C. Tapang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> once pat
> >
> > No. If you think about what BIOS code actually does, this should really
> > be fairly obvious.
>
> Sorry, I'm clueless 8). What does it do, exactly?
Provides an abstract interface to a completely arbitrary hardware
instance. Since there are no hardware standards at this level, you'd
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, R Joseph Wright wrote:
> Which brings up the question that keeps nagging at me: How possible is
> it to create a pc bios that is geared towards BSD/linux? This would
> include its own lightweight repair shell. Couldn't this solve a lot of
> problems with pc hardware, to ha
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Mike Smith wrote:
> In a very few cases, you'll find disk 'emulators' that offer BIOS
> interfaces to the emulated disk. These are rapidly declining in
> popularity because they offer very poor performance for Windows-using
> customers. They also typically fare very poor
...
>
> However, in the "truly" embedded world, you generally do not want a
> multiple-stage boot process. In fact, I have spent a fair bit of time
> eradicating (sp?) most of the "unneccesary" multi-stage boot from the
> PicoBSD stuff I'm doing for a product of mine. The idea of actually
> pu
> Hu... I can easily cram boot0, boot1 and boot2 in there, but loader
> is a bit to big at 128K bytes :-(.
You don't need the loader for most 'embedded' applications. Boot2 will
do you fine.
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