I had the same feeling over a year ago- too much required to get it working sans BIOS.
At 07:21 AM 5/29/2002, Stefan Reinauer wrote: >Hi, > >has anyone tried patching the intXX stuff out of GRUB and make it work >as ELF payload? We have an IDE driver and LinuxBIOS table, so it should >not be too much effort to push these to GRUB. I had a not so close look >at the GRUB sources, and it seems there are not too many parts to adapt >to make it work, but then again, i might be wrong. > >Best regards, > Stefan Reinauer > >-- >The x86 isn't all that complex - it just doesn't make a lot of >sense. -- Mike Johnson, Leader of 80x86 Design at AMD > Microprocessor Report (1994)
