Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 15:17:14 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: three stage boot again Message-ID: <199605270547.PAA25723@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199605240117.VAA03425@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> from "Bill Paul" at May 23, 96 09:17:42 pm
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Bill Paul stands accused of saying: > > Yes, I'm still here. Good to know; thanks for doing the hard yards on this! > My problem is that the > third stage will need this disklabel information. I'm not sure if I > should somehow arrage to save this disklabel info and pass it to the > third stage or if I should make the third stage read it over again. > (It should be able to do it by itself, I suppose.) I think you're on the money here; the third stage shouldn't care how it got into memory, it should be able to derive _everything_ by examining the environment that it finds itself in on startup. (I know this means two bootp requests if it's come in from a netboot environment, but that shouldn't hurt). > -Bill > > PS: Yes, I'm having tremendous fun, dammit. Good! 8) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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