Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 08:34:28 +1000 From: Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: three stage boot again Message-ID: <199605272234.IAA15677@nemeton.com.au>
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On Mon, 27 May 1996 15:17:14 +0930 (CST) Michael Smith wrote: > I think you're on the money here; the third stage shouldn't care how it > got into memory, it should be able to derive _everything_ by examining the > environment that it finds itself in on startup. > > (I know this means two bootp requests if it's come in from a netboot > environment, but that shouldn't hurt). NetBSD (just as an example :) will already make two bootp/RARP requests in a diskless environment to reduce the boot blocks <-> kernel interaction. Giles
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