>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jean-Louis Debert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 9:51 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [expert]
>
>
>Gilbert Baron wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >I think you will find that with Linux, the BIOS only handles the drive
>> >until the relevant parts of the kernel have loaded. After that, Linux
>> >handles the job itself.
>> >
>>
>> This would be stupid in my opinion. There are too many drives.
>It is like no
>> drivers would be written and it will all be in the Kernel..
>> It is The BIOS that makes an API that is constant and that is
>the way I am
>> sure it is done.
>>
>
>You are absolutely wrong, and the person you are replying to,
>was right. For one thing, the BIOS is __NOT__ a "constant" API:
Well I stand corrected although the if you remove the BIOS you cannot run so
therefore it must be involved in some way, at least a direct connection to
the hardware if nothing else.
In any case, it does not matter, it does not solve the problem, the code
that is failing is the install code.
The install code worked with version 7.0, it fails with 7.1. That is simple.
Thai is not acceptable. I don't understand exactly what is happening and it
seems that neither does anyone else that has replied ,. There seems to be no
way around it another that get different hardware.
Sorry, it is not worth it.
In any case, how would I know what to buy, there is nothing in the documents
that say what is and what is not supported.
SORRY FOR THE SLOPPY LAST POST, MY FINGERS REALLY WAVERED I GUESS!
>I have personally been using Linux back in 1992, when most BIOSes
>(including mine at the time) were only 16-bit code. Such 32-bit
>code as was already in Windows at the time (and all of Linux)
>did __NOT__ use the BIOS at all ... (while Linux already had
>32 bit drivers for video, hard disk, cd-rom and whatever,
>at the time __MOST__ of windows was still 16-bit code).
>
>Since that time, most BIOSes have evolved with 32-bit "extensions",
>which Linux uses only for __information__ (e.g. for determination
>of the correct geometry and linear I/O addresses for video).
>But most (all ?) Linux drivers (and modern Windows drivers too)
>don't use the BIOS after initialization.
>
>
>--
>Jean-Louis Debert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>74 Annemasse France
>old Linux fan
>
