Date: 25 Jul 2002 14:01:21 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>, matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org, ru@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/i386 drivers.conf Message-ID: <1027571486.5847.28.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3D3F7373.329CE5EF@mindspring.com> References: <20020705005426Y.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <20020724173037.GE87477@sunbay.com> <20020725032910A.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <20020724.184701.17239163.imp@bsdimp.com> <3D3F5F40.AC5A33EF@mindspring.com> <1027563817.5847.15.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> <3D3F7373.329CE5EF@mindspring.com>
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On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 13:11, Terry Lambert wrote: > > If your argument was true then the kernel would need to load itself :) > > Think "CDROM install". Think "No Emulation Booting" True the default is emulation booting off a 2.88Mb image but work is being done for no-emulation booting (actually to the point of testing it on a wide array of hardware I believe). You can also get to the sysinstall menu with zero mass storage drivers loaded because the whole thing is loaded using the BIOS/loader not the kernel, and from there read from a floppy (not as elegant I grant you, but that is why no emulation booting is being pursued) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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