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From: Andrew Lowe <agl@wht.com.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OFF-TOPIC] Best bios type thingy to boot a computer
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2018 01:19:25 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c34551c8-ce0c-0d08-c60e-057423b3636a@wht.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fc7fbf34-8da2-03ac-8351-0edc4d956e9f@gmail.com>

On 31/08/18 23:16, Andrew Udvare wrote:
> On 8/31/18 10:46 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote:
>> Hi all,
> 
>> 	This is not to start a flame war, I just want to do some reading,
>> wikipedia pages, for self interest on how a BIOS could have/should have
>> been done. I'm thinking of how DECStations, Alpha's SPARCs etc etc
>> booted up.
> 
> Try
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booting#Boot_sequence
> https://github.com/coreos/grub/tree/2.02-coreos/grub-core/boot/i386/pc
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/boot/main.c#L135
> 


	Thanks for the comment but I was more looking along the lines of "When
I used the early SPARC 1 the boot was controlled by ???? and it was
really good because......" hence my original comment about "been there,
done that", people who are old enough to know what a SPARC1 looked like
or even used a Personal Iris or a POWERstation.

	Andrew


  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-31 17:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-31 14:46 [gentoo-user] [OFF-TOPIC] Best bios type thingy to boot a computer Andrew Lowe
2018-08-31 15:16 ` Andrew Udvare
2018-08-31 17:19   ` Andrew Lowe [this message]
2018-08-31 17:41     ` Godzil

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