Re: Unknown bootloader class !! error.......... what is this?

[ron minnich]

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, SONE Takeshi wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 02:24:10PM +0000, gimyung han wrote:
> > Unknown bootloader class !
> > type= 00000000
> > data= 0009882e
>
> This is from setup code of your ELF kernel, and it's not an error,
> just a warning.
> > Firmware type: LinuxBIOS
> > it's all I got................
>
> If you configure your kernel to have console on serial port
> and give the command line like "console=ttyS0,115200"
> to the kernel (at mkelfImage), you should see the messages from
> kernel in addition to the above lines.

Oh, right, you should do this for your very first kernel:
- make it an i386, and turn off all features (mtrr, etc).
- turn off vga consoles
- enable console on serial port

ron