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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot table.c
In-Reply-To: <199905251050.UAA18301@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "May 25, 1999 08:50:39 pm"
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Bruce Evans wrote:

> My version passes the typed-in device name to the kernel and the kernel
> ignores the boot blocks' guess of the major if it can make sense of
> the name.  I might finish this if anyone still uses the old boot blocks.

I'm hoping that we can start dropping the /sys/i386/boot stuff,
with the probable temporary exception of netboot, within the next
few weeks, unless there are serious objections to doing so.

If anyone wants to send me diffs on biosboot, though, I'd be happy
to incorporate the features into boot2, either by default or by
way of a build option.

--
Robert Nordier


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