David Kempe was once rumoured to have said: > Why is that? Using the BIOS is slow. VERY SLOW. And non-reentrant. There are other issues to do with the system running in protected mode and the way linux already deals with most hardware.
Most real Operating systems (Win9x/ME is not a real operating system) will not use BIOS functions if they can avoid it once the system is up. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Crossfire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The reason the bootloader can read the initrd is because it uses bios > hooks > > to do its disk access - something which linux itself can not do. > > > > C. C. -- --==============================================-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==============================================-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
