On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 07:39:06PM +0200, Robert Nordier wrote: > Josef Karthauser wrote: > > As the one who did the actual coding, I can confirm that the approach > adopted in both the new bootblocks and the boot loader is virtually > identical to that used in the older (biosboot) bootblocks. In all > cases, the simplest approach giving the smallest code sizes was > used, so there's very little difference between the three sets of > routines. > > The above applies to 3.0-current. In 3.0-release, the boot loader > was still using BIOS routines (with hardware handshaking), but this > was changed around late November 1998.
I've now confirmed this. The problems that we saw in October have indeed been fixed. Thanks, Joe -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: How many times have you booted today? Technical Manager Viagra for your server (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [...@pavilion.net, j...@uk.freebsd.org, j...@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
