From owner-cvs-all Sat Feb 14 05:23:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA18005 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 05:23:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@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 FAA17966; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 05:22:38 -0800 (PST) (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 FAA22174; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 05:20:18 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199802141320.FAA22174@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Peter Wemm cc: Mike Smith , Ollivier Robert , core@FreeBSD.ORG, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wfd block major number reassignment from 24 to 1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 14 Feb 1998 20:46:41 +0800." <199802141246.UAA03995@spinner.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 05:20:17 -0800 From: Mike Smith Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id FAB17970 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Net booting is more tricky. The netboot code for the eproms would need to > have the same diet applied, except that it'd load /netboot instead, which > could be an alternative compilation of the stage3 code. Alternatively, > /boot could simply be compiled to start up under a UFS or NFS root > environment. Funnily enough, the NetBSD third-stage bootloader is the same, whether it be loaded from disk, net, or DOS. > Sounds easy, eh? Well, the devil is in the details.. That's why nobody > has done it for FreeBSD (and because many unix programmers don't like > working at real-mode 16-bit bios level :-). All it takes is someone with some time to port it. 8) -- \\ 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 cvs-all" in the body of the message