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Date:      Tue, 17 Nov 1998 10:38:40 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, green@unixhelp.org, peter@netplex.com.au, mike@smith.net.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Is it soup yet? :-)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.01.9811171037130.21711-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <36509430.2781E494@whistle.com>

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On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Julian Elischer wrote:

> Terry Lambert wrote:
> > 
> > > > > > > Call be crazy, but I think I'd almost like to move the "real" kernel to
> > > > > > > /boot/kernel, providing the search paths were ok.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > You're absolutely nuts.
> > > > >
> > > > > Can we get postings in -current back on track?  I'm seeing enough
> > > > > Brian Feldman posts to justify a filter.
> > > >
> > > > The "mini FFS" used by the boot blocks doesn't know how to traverse
> > > > subdirectories.
> > >
> > > Actually it does.
> > 
> > Then someone added it more recently than the original version
> > from CSRG.
> > 
> >                                         Terry Lambert
> >                                         terry@lambert.org
> > ---
> > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
> > or previous employers.
> 
> I think you're confusing two bits of code..
> 
> the miniFFS came via me, from the MACH bootblocks
> 
> the stuff from CSRG  (via Bill Jolitz) was junked in 92.

In the alpha loader, I use Julian's FFS code to locate /boot/loader
(because that bit has to fit into the 8k bootarea) and then the one from
libstand for loading everything else.

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