From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 6 15:16:47 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA20649 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 15:16:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ceia.nordier.com (m1-54-dbn.dial-up.net [196.34.155.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA20641 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 15:16:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id AAA03059; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 00:31:58 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199901062231.AAA03059@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: new boot loader ... documentation In-Reply-To: from Andrzej Bialecki at "Jan 6, 99 08:41:59 pm" To: abial@nask.pl (Andrzej Bialecki) Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 00:31:57 +0200 (SAT) Cc: rvb@cs.cmu.edu, rnordier@nordier.com, dcs@newsguy.com, mike@smith.net.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > On 6 Jan 1999, Robert V. Baron wrote: > > > Robert Nordier writes: > > > > > Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > > > > > The "new boot blocks" tutorial limits itself to the "boot blocks": > > > that is, the hidden first and second stages of the bootstrap which > > > are written to the disk by disklabel(8). > > > > What would be equally interesting is a tutorial/overview on btxld, > > btxldr, and btx. How full an OS is btx? > > Oh, yes, pleeez... Write something about it - even quite general concepts > would be helpful, not to mention the usage and arguments. I hadn't really thought about the need for this; but I'll certainly try to put something together in the next few weeks. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message