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Date:      Sun, 03 Aug 1997 09:59:20 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@dk.tfs.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        peter@spinner.dialix.com.au, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot Makefile 
Message-ID:  <10341.870595160@critter.dk.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 03 Aug 1997 17:43:03 %2B1000." <199708030743.RAA07176@godzilla.zeta.org.au> 

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In message <199708030743.RAA07176@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans writes:
>>>   Modified files:
>>>     sys/i386/boot/biosboot Makefile 
>>>   Log:
>>>   Oops, boot2 got too big.  make VESA_SUPPORT nondefault.
>>
>>Argh..  This really sucks.  We REALLY should go to a multi-stage boot 
>>somehow.
>
>Enlarging the existing boot would be much simpler.

I've been waiting for you to say that ever since you put the generic
file reading code in there :-)

>New features are missing from cdboot, dosboot and netboot.

Well, I think that we have a project in unifying our boot code, and
that it is very worthwhile to do so, but as usual.... time :-(

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