> Silo is unmaintained and it needs to be patched to > know the sector numbers > of the second stage boot. This is why SILO does not > work with mkisofs while > a standard sparc boot is directly supported by > mkisofs longer than SILO > exists. I did try to help the SILO people in former > times to create fixes for > their probllems, but they are not interested. Forget > SILO....
This seems to be a general trend with many open source and GNU projects. As soon as somebody comes along and points out to all the hacks (or even provides the fixes for them), they get a cold shoulder. I've seen this numerous times now. It's as if the geeks are only happy if they just hack it up and get it to work, and value cleanliness, quality and scalability as much as dirt. I will never understand that mentality. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
