From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 15 07:35:50 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id HAA24831 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 15 Feb 1995 07:35:50 -0800 Received: from foxtrot.innovus.com (foxtrot.innovus.com [192.75.186.38]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA24825 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 1995 07:35:46 -0800 Message-Id: <199502151535.HAA24825@freefall.cdrom.com> Received: by foxtrot.innovus.com (1.38.193.4/16.2) id AA07883; Wed, 15 Feb 1995 10:35:27 -0500 From: Martin Renters Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/boot/dosboot ansi.h boot.c boot.h bootinfo.h cdefs.h dinode.h dir.h dirent.h disk.c disklabe.h dkbad.h To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it Date: Wed, 15 Feb 95 10:35:27 EST Cc: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199502151048.LAA03136@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>; from "Luigi Rizzo" at Feb 15, 95 11:48 am Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > In the past I have been using the diskless ROM code for booting > FreeBSD through the network when DOS has started. This code works > fine without memory manangers, but often fails with them. It would > be very nice to make a merge of the two programs: the diskless code > compiles completely under FreeBSD, while "fbsdboot" apparently > knows how to deal with the memory managers. If someone goes off and does this, keep in mind that the EPROM version has to stay less than 16K (I think it is over 15K right now). There is "BOOTROM" define that could be used to keep the memory manager code from being compiled for EPROM versions. Martin