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» BIOS    Growing article, with links to many related topics. Wikipedia.    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS

» BIOS Setup Information Guide    How-to guides, general information, upgrades, identifying motherboards, links!    http://www.sysopt.com/bios.html

» FreeBIOS    Project goal: be a central gathering point for BIOS firmware code that can be used to initialize and boot various services. At first, due to the large scope of the project, it will likely only boot a Linux kernel on a few chipsets. Later, it may be a full    http://freebios.sourceforge.net/

» FreeBIOS: SourceForge    Project page: summary, developers, downloads, news, forum.    http://sourceforge.net/projects/freebios/

» LinuxBIOS    Open source Los Alamos Laboratory project to replace normal BIOS with a little hardware initialization and compressed Linux kernel that boots from power-on, and have OS control a cluster node from power-on. Needs few parts to boot, fast (3 sec.), freedom    http://www.linuxbios.org/

» OpenBIOS: FSF/GNU.org    Description, links, contacts.    http://www.gnu.org/directory/Software_development/Programs_for_small_specific_development_tasks/openbios.html

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