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From: Andrew Udvare <audvare@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OFF-TOPIC] Best bios type thingy to boot a computer
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 15:17:04
Message-Id: fc7fbf34-8da2-03ac-8351-0edc4d956e9f@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] [OFF-TOPIC] Best bios type thingy to boot a computer by Andrew Lowe
1 On 8/31/18 10:46 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote:
2 > Hi all,
3
4 > This is not to start a flame war, I just want to do some reading,
5 > wikipedia pages, for self interest on how a BIOS could have/should have
6 > been done. I'm thinking of how DECStations, Alpha's SPARCs etc etc
7 > booted up.
8
9 Try
10
11 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booting#Boot_sequence
12 https://github.com/coreos/grub/tree/2.02-coreos/grub-core/boot/i386/pc
13 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/boot/main.c#L135
14
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16 Andrew

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OFF-TOPIC] Best bios type thingy to boot a computer Andrew Lowe <agl@×××××××.au>