Re: Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file / Making Linux multiboot capable and grub loading kernel modules at boot time.

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Wed, 19 Dec 2001 01:37:00 -0800

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Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
>>From the 10,000 foot level it looks like I am pretty safe already
> except for those BIOS functions that drive the hardware. For those I
> need to setup the legacy PIC back to it's default setting, and
> possibly a few other hardware things. I wonder just how sensitive
> the an x86 BIOS really is to changing those things...
>

You never know, especially since part of the BIOS might be an external
SCSI or network card BIOS...

-hpa

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