I noticed some discussion of the Elpin VGA BIOS in the log of the IRC session (right at the end). Just pointing out that in a real machine, the system BIOS and VGA BIOS will be separate -- the VGA BIOS is card-specific and will usually be on a ROM on the card or near the VGA chipset on the mobo if integrated. You can usually see the VGA BIOS signon message before anything else appears when you power on.
Anyway, it's probably best to keep these independent in plex86 for a couple of reasons: * Licensing -- the Elpin BIOS isn't open source, AFAIK; when I downloaded plex86 for the first time, I had to get the BIOS separately. * Flexibility -- just as the system BIOS isn't needed in some circumstances (for instance, loading a kernel image directly into RAM on start-up), a headless machine may not have a VGA BIOS. Perhaps plex86 should be able to support this so one can start a headless VM and talk to it over the network at some point. Regards, Ben A L Jemmett. (http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)
