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| From: | Andrew Lowe <agl@×××××××.au> | ||
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| 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 17:19:36 | ||
| Message-Id: | c34551c8-ce0c-0d08-c60e-057423b3636a@wht.com.au | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] [OFF-TOPIC] Best bios type thingy to boot a computer by Andrew Udvare |
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| 1 | On 31/08/18 23:16, Andrew Udvare wrote: |
| 2 | > On 8/31/18 10:46 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: |
| 3 | >> Hi all, |
| 4 | > |
| 5 | >> This is not to start a flame war, I just want to do some reading, |
| 6 | >> wikipedia pages, for self interest on how a BIOS could have/should have |
| 7 | >> been done. I'm thinking of how DECStations, Alpha's SPARCs etc etc |
| 8 | >> booted up. |
| 9 | > |
| 10 | > Try |
| 11 | > |
| 12 | > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booting#Boot_sequence |
| 13 | > https://github.com/coreos/grub/tree/2.02-coreos/grub-core/boot/i386/pc |
| 14 | > https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/boot/main.c#L135 |
| 15 | > |
| 16 | |
| 17 | |
| 18 | Thanks for the comment but I was more looking along the lines of "When |
| 19 | I used the early SPARC 1 the boot was controlled by ???? and it was |
| 20 | really good because......" hence my original comment about "been there, |
| 21 | done that", people who are old enough to know what a SPARC1 looked like |
| 22 | or even used a Personal Iris or a POWERstation. |
| 23 | |
| 24 | Andrew |
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| Re: [gentoo-user] [OFF-TOPIC] Best bios type thingy to boot a computer | Godzil <godzil@××××××.net> |