Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 20:49:30 -0800 (PST) From: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net> To: Ade Lovett <ade@demon.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot floppy banner Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980201204806.27748B-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <E0xzAV9-0004RV-00@sphinx.lovett.com>
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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
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