harddrive no memory ---FreeBSD scenario

Markus Boelter m at FreeBSD.org
Thu Mar 8 15:22:34 UTC 2007


Hi!


> Apart from wondering how you're getting the motherboard to get past
> POST without RAM, I'm wondering how you'd get the bootloader and
>
[...]

The guys at Linux/OpenBIOS did some Cache-as-RAM stuff. Maybe you can  
also put (burn) the kernel directly into the BIOS chip and bott with  
that kernel. This is just an idea out of my head - nothing tested and  
no research done in this field. :-)

Cheers
   Markus



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