From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 24 21:31:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EBEF37B400; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:31:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1C0B43E3B; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:31:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.4/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6P4VFZL042638; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:01:17 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/i386 drivers.conf From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Terry Lambert Cc: "M. Warner Losh" , matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org, ru@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG 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> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 25 Jul 2002 14:01:21 +0930 Message-Id: <1027571486.5847.28.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.6 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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