Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 16:43:15 -0500 (EST) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "dangerously dedicated" Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003231640010.12114-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> In-Reply-To: <200003231541.HAA60696@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >2. If the last byte of the sector != 0xaa55 go to the next drive in > the drive list and back step 1, if this was the last drive on the > list print an error and hang. On i386 machines this is usually something lame like: NO ROM BASIC SYSTEM HALTED despite the fact that no machine has included a ROM BASIC since the last of the IBM PS/2 386s came out. However most of the BIOSes until *very* recently still contained code that would check for a ROM BASIC after searching the entire drive list and try booting from that. Now if only we could convince them to put that back in except have it look for a forth interpreter in ROM. ------------------------------------------------------------- | -Brandon D. Valentine bandix at looksharp.net | bandix on EFnet IRC BVRiker on AIM ------------------------------------------------------------- | "...and as for hackers, we note that all of those known to | The Register are so strapped financially that seizing their | property would be tantamount to squeezing blood from a | stone." -- The Register, 02/17/2000 ------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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