Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 11:23:44 -0500 From: Chris Csanady <ccsanady@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/common load_elf.c Makefile.inc Message-ID: <199810011623.LAA16011@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 01 Oct 1998 04:39:11 %2B0800." <199809302039.EAA14177@spinner.netplex.com.au>
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[ question deleted.. ] >I can't speak for the alpha, but the i386 situation so far is: >- This is a work-in-progress. There are some very rough edges, beware! >- mkdir /boot >- touch /boot/boot.conf # you can put commands here that get run >automatically at boot. THings like "load kernel", "load nfs.o" etc. >- Boot as normally.. At the boot: prompt type: /boot/loader (just like a >normal kernel). >- It starts the BTX mini-kernel and the third stage runs in there with >BIOS access via vm86 mode. (this is really cool :-). Does this mean that we can easily put code in the boot blocks to change the text to a different VGA or VESA mode? This would be really nice. :) I prefer the smaller text, although with the current scheme it switches at a bad time--clobbering lots of boot messages. :( [ info deleted ] Anyways, thanks to those that responded, I appreciate it. Chris
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