AROS

[Jaime Dias]

Hi,

does Open Bios will catch the i386 irq handles? if it will, i would ask
what is the best path to make AROS (www.aros.org) to run as standalone OS
on i386 and maybe use the Open Bios as background to all the boot sequence?

PS: i have visited the open bios HP, but i am little confused about what is
beeing coded (on what they are working now)

[Johan Rydberg]

Jaime Dias wrote:
> Hi,
>
> does Open Bios will catch the i386 irq handles? if it will, i would
> ask what is the best path to make AROS (www.aros.org) to run as
> standalone OS on i386 and maybe use the Open Bios as background to all
> the boot sequence?

I think that's a bit of overkill. Why not just use a multiboot-compilant
bootloader, such as GNU GRUB.

See: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub.html
> PS: i have visited the open bios HP, but i am little confused about
> what is beeing coded (on what they are working now)

bootloader

[Edwin Rhodes]

why dont you just use the traditional method of booting an os and forget
about using a multibootloader. ps also, will you support all the traditional
bios calls? i think that it would be a very good idea to otherwise you would
be at a compatibility disadvantage from the viewpoint that only os's that
dont call on the bios would work.
anyway keep up the good work. ps is the source availiable +the image? also
will it work on a non intel pci chipset, ie. isa 386 board.
edwin

----- Original Message -----
From: Johan Rydberg 
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Cc: 
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 1:51 AM
Subject: Re: [OpenBIOS] AROS
> Jaime Dias wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > does Open Bios will catch the i386 irq handles? if it will, i would
> > ask what is the best path to make AROS (www.aros.org) to run as
> > standalone OS on i386 and maybe use the Open Bios as background to all
> > the boot sequence?
>
> I think that's a bit of overkill. Why not just use a multiboot-compilant
> bootloader, such as GNU GRUB.
>
> See: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub.html
> > PS: i have visited the open bios HP, but i am little confused about
> > what is beeing coded (on what they are working now)
>
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bootloader

[Johan Rydberg]

Edwin Rhodes wrote:
> why dont you just use the traditional method of booting an os and forget
> about using a multibootloader. ps also, will you support all the traditional
> bios calls? i think that it would be a very good idea to otherwise you would
> be at a compatibility disadvantage from the viewpoint that only os's that
> dont call on the bios would work.
> anyway keep up the good work. ps is the source availiable +the image? also
> will it work on a non intel pci chipset, ie. isa 386 board.
> edwin

Because, if you use the multiboot-standard then you don't need to do any
of
the boring stuff; i.e., write a bootsector and all the code that
switches to
protected mode and so on.