From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 28 00:49:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA12150 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 00:49:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA12139 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 00:49:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id RAA25463; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 17:18:35 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199808280020.AAA02025@word.smith.net.au> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 17:18:34 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Mike Smith Subject: Re: question Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 28-Aug-98 Mike Smith wrote: > > OK.. hmm.. does the new stuff boot intel boxes yet? :) > a.out kernels from floppy only. The only stumbling block with other > disks is the biosdisk : major/minor numbering mapping. Getting it > "right" on old systems is still impossible, and getting it "right" on > new (EDD 3) systems leads to some new and even more subtle quirks. 8( May you defeat the Evil Empire(tm) in your quest for a better OS.. =) --------------------------------------------------------------------- |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 | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message