On 10-May-2002 Terry Lambert wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: >> On 10-May-2002 Julian Elischer wrote: >> > You also had to have: > > [ ... ] > >> > 4/ The ability to specify a filesystem on another planet^H^H^H^H^H^Hdisk. >> >> Something you've missed in this version of nextboot is: >> >> 5/ work on more than just i386 > > [ ... ] > >> This only works on i386. > > Now is when I point out that the original nextboot predates the ELF > format conversion, as well as the new FORTH based loader code... > which predates running on anything other than i386 anyway (unless > you count my Motorolla Powerstack port, or Vogel's SPARC port, > back before the 4.4-Lite integration).
Right, and we aren't writing a direct replacement of that nextboot. We are writing a utility for FreeBSD 5.0 (and possibly 4.x.) in the year 2002 AD. -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
