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Date:      Wed, 3 Jul 1996 15:02:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "JULIAN Elischer" <julian@ref.tfs.com>
To:        terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New (BIOS) bootblock ?feature?
Message-ID:  <199607032202.PAA02238@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <199607032141.OAA11380@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Jul 3, 96 02:41:42 pm

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> 
> > do we want to integrate this?
> > Since I originally ported the bootblocks to freeBSD, I haven't done much
> > with them.. This is my first real  return to the area..
> > 
> > I have been askled to make the following patches to the bootblocks,
> > together with a user-level program to control it......
> > 
> > The patches are now complete and working, so I want to know if the gang
> > thinks I should integrate them to our sources or whether my client should
> > just keep them separate..
> > 
> > Programmable one-time  bootstring.. (or many time)
> 
> How does this interact with erich@uruk.org's "multiboot" proposed
> standard and code?
can you give me a pointer?
> 
> It sounds like a step forward, and any step forward should be
> integrated (IMO).  It would certaily solve that Italian PC Week
> reviewer's boot problems...
which were?

> 
> 
> 					Terry Lambert
> 					terry@lambert.org
> ---
> Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
> or previous employers.
> 




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