From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 18 10:27:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA20056 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 10:27:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from odin.visigenic.com (odin.visigenic.com [204.179.98.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA20051 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 10:27:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from VSI48 (vsi48.visigenic.com [206.64.15.185]) by odin.visigenic.com (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAA10799; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 10:25:06 -0800 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970218102743.00998100@visigenic.com> X-Sender: toneil@visigenic.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 10:27:43 -0800 To: John Fieber From: "Tim Oneil" Subject: Re: Sun Workshop compiler vs. GCC? Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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