Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 19:06:33 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Tony Overfield <tony@dell.com>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, julian@whistle.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Boot loader hacks was: Re: MAXMEM Message-ID: <199612190306.TAA13547@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 18 Dec 1996 14:06:34 PST." <14493.850946794@time.cdrom.com>
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>> After I decided that a three stage boot process would be an >> easy to implement band-aid for the space problem, I decided to >> check the archives to see why nobody has done it yet. Though it > >http://uruk.uruk.org/grub/ > >Doing something with this is something which has been discussed on a >number of occasions, but only discussed. Perhaps its GPL'd status has >a chilling effect on its import, I don't know! :) I think it also >suffers from BDLI (Bruce Doesn't Like It). Erich agreed to release all the parts that he could under BSD-style copyright. The part that he can't is the part that does the ELF loading (if I recall correctly), which we won't be needing right now anyway. So GPL is not something that should effect our use of it. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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