LinuxBIOS is a project aimed at replacing the proprietary legacy BIOSes of x86 PC hardware with an open, free, fast, and customizable BIOS. Eric Biederman of Linux NetworX has written an excellent article explaining how the BIOS works, how the boot process on x86 differs from PowerPC, SPARC, Alpha, and Itanium, and what people are using LinuxBIOS for.
I’ve looked into this since my server only can handle 33.? GB disks (i430TX chip). No BIOS upgrade is available for my motherboard and I was more or less forced to an OS that don’t use BIOS (FreeBSD, my favourite UNIX). IDE replacements for BeOS recently showed up (with a small IDE boot drive) that handles the situation, but are there any replacements if I want a free BIOS replacement (not Linux tied)?
Please don’t ask ‘Why’ or ‘Whatfor’ questions, just point me in the right direction if you know any free BIOS that can handle large disks and still lets you use your needed ( or your prefered OS).
http://www.freiburg.linux.de/openbios/ & http://freebios.sourceforge.net/ …