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Date:      Sun, 23 Jul 2000 15:33:43 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        Thomas Stromberg <tstromberg@rtci.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: No /boot/loader (dangerously dedicated)
Message-ID:  <200007231933.PAA00475@aldan.algebra.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007222146180.2299-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> from Doug White at "Jul 22, 2000 09:47:23 pm"

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Doug White once stated:

=> Wait!  Smarter then  what?  So it  can  boot NT  and  Win98 for  some
=> weenies, or,  actually do something  useful (not sure  what, though)?
=> Why am I to waste space (even so little) "to be compatible with other
=> OSes", if there will never be any other OSes?
=
=So you'll be compatible with your BIOS as well. Many BIOSen get really,
=really torqued if your partition table isn't normal.

I'm yet to see a BIOS, for which this is true. May be, I'm just lucky...

=It's a negligible amount of space.  Just say 'Yes'. :)

Althouh, I'm delighted to see my opinion  matter so much :), I don't see
the benefit. Making  the loader smarter? To do what?  To play some silly
animations, while loading kernel? No thanks...

	-mi


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