> > 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. It can come up if Mr. Stallman gets his way of either LinuxBIOS http://www.linuxbios.org/ or OpenBIOS http://www.openbios.info/ to succeed. http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/28/1126226 > > -- too bad there is no GNU BIOS that can do the functions of a BIOS :( Regards, Antonio -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
