From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 24 11:44:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA02728 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 11:44:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA02680 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 11:43:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA00815 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 11:44:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199806241844.LAA00815@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 3-stage bootloader, alpha version available. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 11:44:27 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Like it says; an alpha version of the new three-stage bootloader is available from http://www.freebsd.org/~msmith/boot. Thanks to the NetBSD folks for the starting point, and Doug Rabson for making it work initially on FreeBSD. Note that no copyrights were harmed in the making of these tarballs, nor is this a cut-n-paste of someone else's work. This supports booting normal and gzipped a.out FreeBSD kernels (many options may not work properly yet). Feedback and contributions are invited, in particular anyone that wants to help with loading via the current bootstrap is encouraged. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message