Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 11:48:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, rnordier@nordier.com, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot table.c Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.990525114609.1082D-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199905251232.WAA28341@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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We use the old bootblocks in production (thousands and thousands of machines). We don't use teh sources in FreeBSD as we have some hacks of our own. As long as an aout kernel can continue to be built and loaded by th e old bootblocks we are ok. When that stops working we'll have to do some hard work I guess. On Tue, 25 May 1999, Bruce Evans wrote: > >> My version passes the typed-in device name to the kernel and the kernel > >> ignores the boot blocks' guess of the major if it can make sense of > >> the name. I might finish this if anyone still uses the old boot blocks. > ^ else > > >I'm hoping that we can start dropping the /sys/i386/boot stuff, > >with the probable temporary exception of netboot, within the next > >few weeks, unless there are serious objections to doing so. > > I hoped we could drop the new boot blocks :-). I don't plan to use them. > (Your boot2 is a neat hack, but is even more hackish than biosboot.) > > Bruce > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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