From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 14 14:20:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88F3B37B66F for ; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 14:20:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zeppo.feral.com (IDENT:mjacob@zeppo [192.67.166.71]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA07873; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 14:20:06 -0700 Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 14:16:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Our kernel just got too big again. :) In-Reply-To: <53418.971557710@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I had asked for a 3rd floppy earlier that we could put f/w images and other > > That sounds nice in theory, but somebody needs to write the code which > deals with floppy switching and module loading before this is anything > but yet another request. How's your forth? :) Hmm?... my forth is poor, but I don't believe that's the issue. If I understand how the floppies currently work is that it's just like our normal boot loader- we start coming up. If you want to load other drivers or modules (like ispfw), you hit the 'other than Enter' to stop the loading progress, switch floppies and load ispfw, davicom ethernet, a splash screen with jordan's face, whatever...then you type 'boot'- then the normal mfsroot floppy handoff works. The loader for i386 uses bios services to read a DOS filesystem on a floppy or the C , D, E and so on drive, right? This wasn't 'just another request'- although you hearing it from me might make you think so. You asked "what should we do?". I responded with something which I believe might 'just work' if you make 3rd floppy. I'll take a couple of minutes to go try it if I can find what I did with my 4.1 floppies unless you're sure this doesn't work. If you're email to -current was "only answers with patches against -current will be heard", you really should have said so. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message