Thanks for the late night reply jdow
On Sun, 2006-16-04 at 20:32 -0700, jdow wrote:
> From: "William Case" <billlinux@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > How does main BIOS, at this early stage, know were the auxiliary BIOSes
> > are and which ones to elbow into action -- this is after all before PnP
> > has kicked in?
>
> This is the subject of many standards. There is an open source bios
> project. You may find some specific answers there. (I don't know their
> address, though.)
That maybe why I couldn't find a clear answer. Everybody was using
fluff words to describe this part of booting. I saw the open source
bios site a few weeks ago. Since it didn't seem to be about my Intel
BIOS I moved on. I'll go back and read it more carefully.
> > You know, to get a real answer I am probably going to have to slog my
> > way through the BASH source code. Ruefully; I would have thought that
> > someone would have already done the slogging and left a nice neat
> > readable explanation for the world. Oh well.
>
> Happy slogging. {o.o}
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that you hadn't given me a 'real' answer
-- just a poor choice of words.
I'll slog, write the book, and you can publish it. We'll split the
profits. OK?
>
You see, this exchange is what I wanted to find through my original
post. I feel guilty about using the Fedora Mailing List for topics that
are not strictly Fedora. Yet, I have no idea were to find a platform
for the friendly exchange of information like you and I have just had
this evening.
Thanks jdow and best regards,
Bill
