From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 18 14:07:47 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id OAA01078 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 14:07:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id OAA01073 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 14:07:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA14497; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 14:06:35 -0800 (PST) To: Tony Overfield cc: Bruce Evans , julian@whistle.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Boot loader hacks was: Re: MAXMEM In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 18 Dec 1996 14:37:46 EST." <3.0.1.32.19961218143733.0068f0ac@bugs.us.dell.com> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 14:06:34 -0800 Message-ID: <14493.850946794@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > After I decided that a three stage boot process would be an > easy to implement band-aid for the space problem, I decided to > check the archives to see why nobody has done it yet. Though it http://uruk.uruk.org/grub/ Doing something with this is something which has been discussed on a number of occasions, but only discussed. Perhaps its GPL'd status has a chilling effect on its import, I don't know! :) I think it also suffers from BDLI (Bruce Doesn't Like It). Jordan