From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 8 03:46:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA04449 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 03:46:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from word.smith.net.au (ppp13.portal.net.au [202.12.71.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA04441 for ; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 03:46:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA01216; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 22:11:26 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199711081141.WAA01216@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Jonathan Mini cc: Mike Smith , wghhicks@ix.netcom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: x86 gods; advice? Suggestions? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 08 Nov 1997 03:16:30 -0800." <19971108031630.47892@micron.mini.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 08 Nov 1997 22:11:25 +1030 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > > If you can roll a bootloader that uses just the BIOS and has a > > footprint around 7k, you'll have our attention... > > 7k? wow. You've got more space than I thought you did. (by a lot) Not really; there's a lot of work behind the scenes in there. At any rate, there's one track less one sector on the smallest supported boot media. Right now that's 15-sector disks (1.2MB); it's not unreasonable to suggest that it might rise to 17 sectors at some stage, but not much likely to rise above that. mike