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> >the ELF way, I think the kernel would be one of the last areas we'd want to
> >convert since it further complicates our cramped bootblocks.
> 
> Have you looked at multiboot/GRUB from Eric Boleyn (sp?) yet ?

Far be it for me to come off sounding anti-ELF, when I've been
so violently in favor of it for so long, but... I had a number
of large problems getting the GRUB code to actually work.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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