Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 14:34:27 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: terry@lambert.org, bde@zeta.org.au, dgy@rtd.com, hackers@freebsd.org, helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De Subject: Re: wd driver questions Message-ID: <199703170404.OAA06742@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199703170311.NAA06131@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Mar 17, 97 01:41:10 pm"
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Michael Smith stands accused of saying: > > > Tony Overfield (an engineer from Dell) has gone over this all before, > > but since he wants a three stage boot, a lot of his good comments > > were thrown out with the bathwater of a three stage boot after no > > one came forward to "bell the cat" (write the three stage boot code). > > Several of us are playing with three-stage bootcode. If you would be so I should perhaps have added that I haven't seen Tony's code, so I can't comment on what he has done. So far I have Bill's hack to the current bootstrap, GRUB and my tinkering with the NetBSD libsa. If anyone else is seriously working on a 3-stage bootstrap, I'd be happy to hear about it. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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