From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 24 19: 9:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F4CB37B423 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 19:09:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA10101; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 22:09:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.3/8.9.1) id f3P29HI34973; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 22:09:17 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15078.12749.768216.453625@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 22:09:17 -0400 (EDT) To: Doug Ambrisko Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmware on freebsd for fast booting for devel. In-Reply-To: <200104250202.f3P22xw25939@ambrisko.com> References: <15077.62336.317751.756087@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <200104250202.f3P22xw25939@ambrisko.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Ambrisko writes: > | > | Grub doesn't support FreeBSD very well (eg, it can't set the root > | device, set hints, etc). I think he was hacking grub to add those > | features, but I don't know how far he got...BTW, grub has no spinner. > > Why not just use EtherBoot? Simple ignorance. I'll pass that pointer along to the person here who was hacking with VMware. Thanks! Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message