Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 21:52:05 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Donn Miller <dmm125@bellatlantic.net>, Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problesm w/ 4.0-current & wine Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902152148340.26084-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <199902160111.RAA13608@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > Whoops, I always end up typing the wrong thing :) boot0 is the MBR, boot2 is > > the kernel loader, and they're all by Mr. Nordier. > > Wrong again. boot0 is in the MBR, boot1 and boot2 are the bootstrap; > all by Robert. The loader, OTOH, uses Robert's BTX code, Ficl, and a > lot of code derived by me from the NetBSD standalone loader. Boot2 is, as you say, correctly identified as the "bootstrap", however you cannot deny that boot2 is a kernel loader as it can load a pure executable (a.out kernel or /boot/loader) or an ELF kernel. > > > The BTX loader does have a "prompt" by default and if you interrupt the > > countdown. The prompt is, of course, Forth :) > > The "BTX loader" doesn't have a prompt at all. The kernel loader has a > prompt, and the prompt is not written in Forth (yet). By "BTX loader" I refer to the BTX kernel and system which can bootstrap a kernel and load modules. The prompt isn't OF Forth, I stated that the prompt TAKES Forth; perhaps I could have said that better. > > -- > \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith > \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au > \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > > Brian Feldman _ __ ___ ___ ___ green@unixhelp.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ http://www.freebsd.org/ _ __ ___ ____ | _ \__ \ |) | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ ___ ____ _____ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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