Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 23:54:25 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, rnordier@nordier.com Cc: brian@Awfulhak.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot table.c Message-ID: <199905251354.XAA02838@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>Quite seriously, though (and with no particular irony implied), >I'm curious to know why you regard the boot2 stuff as "more hackish". I meant mainly the non-asm parts. boot2 has a lower density of comments, and doesn't attempt to keep machine-independent parts in separate modules. >At least one practical feature of the new boot blocks is that they >are BIOS geometry-independent, which is certainly useful. And they >certain appear to have fewer bugs: though I may just be pressing the >wrong buttons. I think they fail on older systems instead of newer ones. Unfortuntely I no longer have my 1987 1.6MB system to test on :-). It would fail in boot1 for ah = 8; int 0x13. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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