Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 17:05:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@dk.tfs.com>, dg@root.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-current@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: core group topics Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970731170353.330B-100000@Journey2.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <199707312023.NAA07693@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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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! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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