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Date:      Thu, 31 Jul 1997 17:05:57 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@dk.tfs.com>, dg@root.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-current@freefall.FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: core group topics
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970731170353.330B-100000@Journey2.mat.net>
In-Reply-To: <199707312023.NAA07693@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Terry Lambert wrote:

> > >the ELF way, I think the kernel would be one of the last areas we'd want to
> > >convert since it further complicates our cramped bootblocks.
> > 
> > Have you looked at multiboot/GRUB from Eric Boleyn (sp?) yet ?
> 
> Far be it for me to come off sounding anti-ELF, when I've been
> so violently in favor of it for so long, but... I had a number
> of large problems getting the GRUB code to actually work.

I know very little about boot loaders, but I was wondering if anyone had
seen a tool called solo, which seems to be a bootloder by Frank Barrus?

The important part from the README has:

Complete, unaltered, original distributions of this and related code
may be obtained from:   http://www.csh.rit.edu/~shaggy/software.html
or:     ftp://ftp.csh.rit.edu/pub/csh/shaggy


> 
> 
> 					Terry Lambert
> 					terry@lambert.org
> ---
> Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
> or previous employers.
> 
> 

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