Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 12:09:45 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot disk.... Message-ID: <199510310139.MAA02717@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199510302342.AAA09072@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Oct 31, 95 00:42:25 am
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J Wunsch stands accused of saying: > > And tell me, how the heck am I going to read that if I can't get the > > *#$(*@ system to boot in the first place? > > By documentation provided along with the boot image file. For example > the excellent handbook. :) > > It's impossible to put the entire README into the bootstrapper anyway. No, but it _is_ possible to add a little intelligence, and a little more onscreen context can only help. > I'm really afraid of too much bloat here. How may MB for your DM, Jo"rg? I can imagine the bootstrap module might make it to 150-200K if we go _completely_ overboard. That's what, 200msec to load? If it has nothing to do, the timeout's not going to be any longer than the current bootstrap; the code won't be anywhere once it's finished, and hell, the kernel may even _lose_ some size. > cheers, J"org -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[
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