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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