[GRLUG] Cheap Laptop Needed

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To boot it does. And the bios does do some setting up of the various 
machine hardware. But once the linux kernel is loaded and starts running 
you can kiss the BIOS goodbye.

Bob Kline wrote:
> Does Linux even use a machine's BIOS ?
>
> I don't believe Unix ever did.  Mac OS being
> BSD Unix,  that all fits.
>
>     -Bob
>
>
> On 3/30/07, * Greg Folkert* <greg at gregfolkert.net 
> <mailto:greg at gregfolkert.net>> wrote:
>
>      
>
>     4MB is the largest BIOS available in current production. New Intel
>     MACs
>     don't even have a BIOS.
>
>      
>
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