AndreasHofer wrote:
Hi, Brian,
that is exactly what I was looking for all the time --- just booting Linux on a bare machine whithout any BIOS. Could you give me some pointers on that?
One of the guys from FreeMWare compiled a trim Linux which could be loaded straight into the memory of bochs and soon in FreeMWare without needing the BIOS. We used some hacks in bochs to set up the CPU registers in protected mode etc. It works.
Essentially, we didn't want to implement the 16bit stuff for now, and wanted to boot straight into 32bit protected mode.
Seems like you could do the same thing, putting the Linux image in a ROM rather than read it from a file etc, and ROM'ing just a little startup code too.
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