From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 23 13:43: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15C4F37B9B0 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 13:42:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bandix@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA12434; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 16:43:15 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 16:43:15 -0500 (EST) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Cc: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group , Vivek Khera , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "dangerously dedicated" In-Reply-To: <200003231541.HAA60696@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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