Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 13:51:10 -0500 (EST) From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: speaking of 3.4... Message-ID: <199911231851.NAA22406@misha.cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <199911231817.KAA01017@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Nov 23, 1999 10:17:23 am"
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Mike Smith once wrote: > > The inability to boot after a seemingly successfull install should > > be eliminated... > The only way to guarantee this is to cause the install to fail unless > the installation program can be 100% certain of the bootability of the > install. You know, a very similar answer was given to me a couple of years ago on this very forum (may be on -current). Back then, the inability to detect over 64Mb of RAM was the issue. Both problems are related to the majority of PC BIOSes' brain damage, but somehow other operating systems manage to work around the said damage. I don't know if it is the installer or the kernel's root-device seeker (or both), that need to be made even smarter, but something needs to be done. Of course, the statements like this do not solve the problems. But they put them into spotlight... Then, may be, that's not what's needed? The 64Mb problems, AFAIR, was only addressed after some magazine benchmarked FreeBSD against Linux on a 128Mb machine and we sucked because we were only using 64Mb... -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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