On Jul 25, 2008, Les <hlhowell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Do you know what the BIOS actually does? Yep. It loads the kernel and transfers control to it. At times, it provides the kernel with essential information about the configuration of the system. At times, in some cases, the kernel requests the BIOS to perform certain essential tasks. That's about it. Point is, if it's removed, the system won't boot up. Which is perfectly along the same lines of, if the kernel is not there, the rest of the system can't come up. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
