From owner-cvs-all Tue May 25 11:55:34 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 896A9158B6; Tue, 25 May 1999 11:55:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: from current1.whistle.com (current1.whistle.com [207.76.205.22]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id LAA10118; Tue, 25 May 1999 11:54:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 11:54:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Robert Nordier Cc: Bruce Evans , brian@Awfulhak.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot table.c In-Reply-To: <199905251747.TAA14745@ceia.nordier.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Tue, 25 May 1999, Robert Nordier wrote: > > Anyone else with reasons to keep the /sys/i386/boot/* (except netboot) > code around any longer? Not so much the code istself as we have our own copy of them but as a way of making sure that old bootblocks can still boot aout kernels etc. having them around is useful. We have a whole production line resting on the fact that the old bootblocks work :-) The many thousands of machines in the field that may want to upgrade one day still need their original bootblocks to be able to load new stuff. and having th eold bootblocks around makes it more likely that people won't break that. just a thought. julian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message