From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jul 31 14:07:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA03763 for current-outgoing; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 14:07:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earth.mat.net (root@earth.mat.net [206.246.122.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA03755 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 14:07:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Journey2.mat.net (journey2.mat.net [206.246.122.116]) by earth.mat.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA22904; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 17:05:44 -0400 Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 17:05:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@Journey2.mat.net To: Terry Lambert cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , dg@root.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-current@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: core group topics In-Reply-To: <199707312023.NAA07693@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Terry Lambert wrote: > > >the ELF way, I think the kernel would be one of the last areas we'd want to > > >convert since it further complicates our cramped bootblocks. > > > > Have you looked at multiboot/GRUB from Eric Boleyn (sp?) yet ? > > Far be it for me to come off sounding anti-ELF, when I've been > so violently in favor of it for so long, but... I had a number > of large problems getting the GRUB code to actually work. I know very little about boot loaders, but I was wondering if anyone had seen a tool called solo, which seems to be a bootloder by Frank Barrus? The important part from the README has: Complete, unaltered, original distributions of this and related code may be obtained from: http://www.csh.rit.edu/~shaggy/software.html or: ftp://ftp.csh.rit.edu/pub/csh/shaggy > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------