Re: [plex86] Plex86 boots Linux!!!

[Ramon van Handel]

On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Kenneth Arnold wrote:
> > Graphics modes don't work yet, only text modes.
> > So X wouldn't run, unless you have an AAlib X server? ;)
> 
> Well with GGI and the aalib driver and the GGI X server...
> 
> But shouldn't SVGA X work?

We use BOCHS hardware emulation, which is plain VGA...
Actually, right now we're only copying the text-mode part of the
framebuffer, so none of the modes would work except text anyway :)

> Isn't a VGA BIOS kind of required for running
> modern x86 OSes?


No.

-- Ramon