From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 1 20:49:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA01569 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 1 Feb 1998 20:49:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (garbanzo@congo-70.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.227.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA01559 for ; Sun, 1 Feb 1998 20:49:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA27885; Sun, 1 Feb 1998 20:49:33 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 20:49:30 -0800 (PST) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: Ade Lovett cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot floppy banner In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, Ade Lovett wrote: > Mike Smith writes: > > > >This loses in the case where there is no boot.banner message. Help is > >not displayed by default anymore, and there is no way to determine that > >you need to type said command. > > Unfortunately, I've yet to find a way to do this without making the > resulting binary too big -- 300 bytes isn't an awful lot to play > around with :) > > That's not to say it couldn't be done, but it would require a > not insignificant amount of work to figure out where some existing > code can be rewritten to be smaller -- it'll also interfere with > any 'real' extra functionality that others want to put in at a later > date. Does the boot floppy use kzip'd kernels? Cause if it doesn't... I think that it should work fine, since the boot floppy doesn't need lkms or anything like that... Linux: The Microsoft Windows(tm) of the Unix(tm) world. - alex