Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 10:27:43 -0800 From: "Tim Oneil" <toneil@visigenic.com> To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sun Workshop compiler vs. GCC? Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970218102743.00998100@visigenic.com>
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At 10:27 PM 2/15/97 -0500, you wrote: >On Sat, 15 Feb 1997, Jake Hamby wrote: > >> I also suggest that FreeBSD add a splash screen with clearly printed >> directions on how to bypass it to see the hardware probes underneath. > >The windows 95 splash screen disappears at the press of Escape, >revealing whatever is going on on the console (not much usually). Thats for sure. Even though Microsoft played Win95 off as a 'true 32 bit' os, and it looks really neat while the 'hardware wizard' does its own probing and selects device drivers and etc, at boot time I notice that it continues to load the old 16 bit drivers that were (on this particular machine) there before 95 was installed. I presume that these drivers are loaded becuase 95 happily continues to execute whatever autoexec.bat is present. But I have to wonder, is 95 actually using those 16 bit drivers, or does it discard them after it restores state? I much prefer the probe messages on my BSD box, at least I have a fighting chance of knowing EXACTLY whats wrong if something fails at boot time. -Tim
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