Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 22:32:19 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, rnordier@nordier.com Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot table.c Message-ID: <199905251232.WAA28341@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> 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.
^ else
>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.
I hoped we could drop the new boot blocks :-). I don't plan to use them.
(Your boot2 is a neat hack, but is even more hackish than biosboot.)
Bruce
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